Quotes About Protest

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

The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.

The madness of crowds was a terrible thing to see. The madness of police with clubs and guns was even worse.

Came a time when people of conscience had to take a stand.

When Thoreau was arrested for protesting an injustice, Ralph Waldo Emerson had visited him in prison and said, "Henry, what are you doing in there?" And Thoreau had replied, "Ralph, what are you doing out there?

What riches there once were, what beauties! Raindrops on roses and crop tops on cuties. Now it's just tear gas and water hoses, and Mexican children tied up with strings. These are a few of their favourite things. Quarry every mountain, wreck every stream.

If the great body of the people have clamored for our comrades' blood, it was because they believed what the lying monopolistic press has said.

a "strike," which means a resistance on the part of the oppressed toward the oppressor—a protest, as it were

Give them to understand that you will not stand patiently by and see your hard earnings squandered by a luxuriating class of idlers.

Louie believed that those white men with their signs and slogans were not really there for the unborn, but there for the women who carried them. They couldn't control women's sexual independence. To them, this was the next best thing.

Jsem proti válce, ne proti voják?m.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

I believed that one had to stop the machinery of war.