Quotes About Protest

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

America symbolizes FREEDOM. Freedom of speech and Freedom to protest. Today we honor those that fought for our FREEDOM. Happy Veterans Day.

Happy Veterans Day to those that fought for our FREEDOM! Our freedom of speech and our freedom to protest all inequalities and injustices.

The roar of an angry crowd is much louder than that of a lion.

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

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

The next day, Paris woke up to find its streets plastered with posters calling for a general strike.

Leo's profligacy as patron and builder, which kept him perpetually strapped for cash, lay behind his authorization of the sale of indulgences in Germany, against which Luther's Ninety-Five Theses was such a forceful protest.

Which is I've had it with those ungrateful bastards. Give your all for your country and what do you get? Some punk kids wearing the American flag on their ass throwing stuff and spitting on you. It used to be if there was a war and you weren't in uniform you got spit on. The hell with `em.

If all poor people refused to fight, he argued, the rich would have no army and there would be no war.

Shock and awe" is deployed in U.S. city streets, complete with police in full body armor, helmeted and masked, with rubber-bullets (as well as live ammunition), flash bang grenades, armored personnel carriers, drones and more. Studying over 800 SWAT team actions between 2010 and 2013, the ACLU report, The War Comes Home, details the extraordinary intensification of militarized police.

As the increase of SWAT actions over the 1980s and 1990s suggests, militarized policing is not new. It is not simply a post-9/11 phenomenon. Demonstrators in Seattle in November 1999 confronted fully-outfitted military police in that city's streets when then unprecedented actions of protestors closed down World Trade Organization meetings of that year. "In truth," writes Jeffrey St. Clair, "the police have always been militarized.

Their means may be strategically effective as in the work of the Black Panthers in Chicago, with Fred Hampton's efforts there before he was assassinated by police. Their means may be, in other contexts, less effective than were the Black Panthers and other groups. In either case, though, they are termed "social dynamite" because they are, or can be perceived as, a major threat to the functioning of the economic and political order.

Children walking out on strike from textile mills in New Jersey in the 1840s, shoemakers doing the same in New England, the Black Panthers and other dissidents of color challenging white supremacist exploitation in the 1960s and 1970s—for all their differences, these share in being viewed and treated as "social dynamite.

People today are lifting up their cries and forging new actions from an oppressive regime in our day. At

Critique of the 1 percent's domination predates, it should be recalled, the "Occupy" movement's popularizing of the notion. In fact, Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked often on the notion of the 1 percent in his early speeches of the 1950s: "They tell me that one tenth of one percent of the population controls more than forty percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxury to the classes.

The history of the anti-nuclear movement is therefore not lit by sunshine, but shrouded in coal smoke.

Social movements thrive on conflict," wrote Piven and Cloward.