Quotes About Protest

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

As it had been with Dreyfusism, so it was with the marriage of Saint-Loup and Odette's daughter, a marriage people protested against at first. Now that people met everyone they knew at the Saint-Loups', Gilberte might have had the morals of Odette herself, people would have gone there just the same and would have agreed with Gilberte in condemning undigested moral novelties like a dowager-duchess.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations," she went on, "are all too frequently those who by our own words and acts ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize, The right to hold unpopular beliefs, The right to protest, The right to independent thought.

The media wants to call them riots, but they're uprisings. Why should black people behave well to get their rights? White people don't behave and they get all the rights they want.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

The finest actor is he who play the comedy of life perfectly, as i aspire to do. To walk well, talk well, weep well, laugh well and die well, it is all pure acting, because in every man there is the dumb dreadful immortal spirit who is real- who cannot act, who-is and who steadily maintains an infinite though speechless protest against the body's lies

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

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

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

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

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.