Quotes About Protest

Then all at once he´d hear his own voice enunciating clearly and firmly, feel its reverberance along the walls and ceiling, feel ears growing tense, men and women leaning forward in their chairs, see the rows of faces quite clearly, the groups of people who couldn´t find seats crowding at the doors. Phrases like `protest, massaction, united working-class of this country and the world, revolution´, would light up the eyes and faces under him like the glare of a bonfire.

His gall in holding the rally directly under the noses of the supreme court was humorous, even admirable.

the Earl of Atholl's men and those of the Laird of Tullibardine cried out, "Burn the whore!

We need no promise of a happy ending to justify our rejection of a world we feel to be wrong.

A fascist is a student who, seeing the representatives of a chemical industry recruiting on campus, cries, Let's chase the bastard off! We have the right to free speech but he doesn't!

It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

Revolt is the right of the people

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty, when the state becomes lawless or corrupt

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

Some Rousseauean anthropologists protest that reports of cannibalism represent a racist desire to denigrate other cultures, but the scientific evidence suggests otherwise.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

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.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

NLM is a peaceful protest group made up of Noughts, Crosses and all right-minded citizens worldwide who despise bigotry and injustice. We