Quotes About Protest

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Americans must rise up and make all in Washington DC unemployed.

You saw the race riots in Watts. . . . Do nice people go around burning and looting — and even killing? Not since last night. When our Marines razed a village outside Khe Sanh in North Vietnam.

I wish to protest most strongly about everything.

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

Speak out, you got to speak out against The madness, you got to speak your mind, If you dare

Snark is what people on the inside call any attempt at protest from people on the outside. I hate it on principle, as do all Columbia professors, Catholic priests, and Mississippi Klansmen.

While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is still morally superior to doing nothing to oppose it at all.

An SDS radical once wrote, "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." In other words the cause - whether inner city blacks or women - is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.