Quotes About Protest

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture - in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality, when they raise issues of bondage and discrimination - African Americans are seen as not patriotic.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

You can't change the system through violence.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence.

Why are Washington and Oregon the home turf of every violent Left-wing radical? It seems to be a never-ending cycle of radical Lefties burning down Starbucks and moderate lefties upset they can't get their lattes.

In a democracy, everyone has a right to put forward one's views. But people resorting to violent demonstrations in the name of Dalits are bound to be exposed.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.

I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.

BSP does not believe in organizing violent protest. It's a disciplined party and follows democratic process to oppose anti-people policies of government.

Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.

When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'

When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.

One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.