Quotes About Protest

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.