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Quotes About Protest

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
~ Unknown
When the public protests. confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizers pills of half truth.
~ Rachel Carson
Kent State by Deborah Wiles
~ Rachel Cohn
They'll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades
~ Unknown
Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else.
~ Dean Koontz
There's maybe ten places in the country where free speech still works, but this isn't one of them.
~ Dean Koontz
We support social justice by being antisocial." He leaned forward in his chair, lowering his voice as if imparting a secret. "We protest poverty by living well. And we champion freedom by providing folks like you with whatever you think makes you free.
~ Dean Koontz
lèse majesté?
~ Dean Koontz
Beijing has protested long and hard about America's sale of F-16s to Taiwan and has bought its way into the U.S. Democratic Party to ensure that there will be no repeat sales—even as its spies buy and steal America's nuclear secrets.
~ Unknown
If there's a violent mob on campus, it isn't Ben Shapiro's fault - he's just someone coming to campus to talk about ideas. Mob violence is the mob's fault
~ Dennis Prager
Self-destruction by hanging is almost always an act of protest, a desire to shock and hurt someone. Therefore, believers in euthanasia avoid it. Even if the job of cutting down the body is left to the police or paramedics, this is an unacceptably selfish way to die, and I have never heard of a euthanasia supporter using it. Unless the neck is broken by the rope jerking the fall to a stop (as a professional hangman arranges), then it is death by strangulation, often not so quick.
~ Derek Humphry
He was overcome with a sudden sense of premonition, though he did not believe in premonition. He felt things in motion around him, things that he did not understand and could not control, things settling of themselves into an ordained and appointed position, like the revolving spheres of his father's orrery—and he wished to protest this state of affairs, but could not.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I don't approve of many of the attacks of Black Lives Matter. I don't.
~ Benjamin Watson
We do not believe in authoritarian rule.
~ Joshua Wong
It's empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.
~ Greta Thunburg
When a country doesn't respect Black lives, maybe it doesn't deserve to be entertained by Black athletes.
~ Jemele Hill
In 1965, I marched for equality.
~ Alphonso Jackson
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
~ Jimi Hendrix
And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisble house by invisble house -- I took a a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.
~ Ilya Kaminsky
People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.
~ Immanuel Wallerstein
Zafar's lot never write what they really feel which is FUCK YOU WICKED CUNTS I HOPE YOU DIE PAINFULLY FOR THE HORRIBLE THINGS YOU DID TO US AND THE ARROGANT FUCKING CRUELTY YOU'VE DISPLAYED EVER SINCE. They write high-sounding shit like JUSTICE FOR KHAUFPUR and KAMPANI MEET YOUR LIABILITIES
~ Unknown
Any rapist would feel pretty dang upset to see his car packed full with rotting fish heads and limburger cheese...Also, if the 542 women responsible were crowded onto the street where he lived, insisting that he move himself and his stinky car to another locale. Nobody likes to be pelted with 2060 bloody tampons.
~ Inga Muscio
All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree.
~ Ishmael Reed