Quotes About Protest

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

Laura Oliva, A World Apart

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!And look around ...can you blame us?!

Your key hobbies need to be long country walks (get some fresh air in those lungs!), masturbation, and the revolution. Between those three, you should, in the long term, stay relatively sane.

The Occupy Wall Street movement faltered when activists realized that traders were quite busy already.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

A protest against reality, either conscious or unconscious, active or passive, optimistic or pessimistic, always forms part of a really creative piece of work.

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.