Quotes About Protest

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Our philosophy is to go for one company at a time, and go for its finances. If we had gone down and protested outside HLS every day for the last five years we would have got nowhere

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Revolutions are always verbose.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.