Quotes About Protest

We have reached the point where multi-millions of people are taking to the streets around the world to protest at their economic plight as the gap between rich and poor becomes a chasm as (calculated) chaos in the financial system has been used as the (calculated) excuse for the biggest transfer of wealth from the many to the few, from poor to rich, from masses to elite, in known human history.

Mass action by everyday black people was just as powerful a tool for social change as the lawsuit, and maybe more so. If

Tell Montgomery they can keep shooting and I'm going to stand up to them; tell Montgomery they can keep bombing and I'm going to stand up to them. If I had to die tomorrow morning I would die happy because I've been to the mountaintop and I've seen the promised land and it's going to be here in Montgomery.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

The Bastille, where I live, is best known as the site where the infamous prison was seized and ransacked by the masses, igniting the French Revolution. Two hundred and twenty years later my doorstep is still the starting point for almost all the marches and strikes that happen in Paris. Fortunately it doesn't happen all that much. Just once a day or so.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

Even though IÂ'm pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. TheyÂ're putting important issues on the agenda.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.