Quotes About Protest

Her strength and spirit were both dripping away, leaving her empty inside. She could feel her filth and hunger, and her body was protesting violently about her long period of tension, and drug and alcohol abuse.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

a young Indian in our little Datsun chased one of the government's huge armored cars. He was banging on the armor with a stick, "counting coup." The

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander.

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.

Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons. With activists eating lemons or pretending to, involuntary saliva reaction of the band made it impossible for them to interrupt.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.' He looked perplexed. 'Where did that come from? Is that a quote?' 'Yeah. Henry David Thoreau. You know, my fave philosopher.

to be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act

We made a joke of it during the Occupy protests, when "Why are they so angry?" somehow became a common news feature assignment after a fraud-ridden financial services sector put millions in foreclosure and vaporized as much as 40 percent of the world's wealth. More recently, we've cycled through a series of unconvincing responses to Why do they hate us?—themed stories like Brexit, the Bernie Sanders primary run of 2016, and the election of Donald Trump.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Diez mil nacionalistas contrarios a los Estados Unidos y la democracia, y partidarios de los nazis, marcharon por la avenida Santa Fe, gritando desafiantemente: '¡Muerte a los cerdos ingleses!','Muerte a los judíos!' y '¡Neutralidad y Castillo!'".

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

It's hard to argue with Senator Rand Paul, who, during a lonely protest on the Senate floor, said, "If you were against President Obama's deficits, and now you're for the Republican deficits, isn't that the very definition of hypocrisy?"63 But, of course, he's a hypocrite too, having voted for the massive tax cut.

Cry out for justice in the name of those who suffer injustice.

The peace sign is with two fingers not one.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

Throughout history the cross stands as a symbol of protest and revolt; protest against all claims, whether by religious or political power, to absolute unquestioning control over human minds and bodies; revolt against all systems and ideologies, all regimes and institutions, which continue to push individuals and groups beyond the pale, outside the gate.

Ahlaks?z bir bask?n?n oldu?u her ülkede, bar??ç?l ve sürekli bir sivil itaatsizlik

An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!