Quotes About Protest

If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

They want you to scare those middling people by violence and rioting. That will get people worrying about the need to maintain order, and stop them thinking about freedom of speech.

When there is fighting in the streets, they can claim that public order has broken down, and drastic measures are needed to restore the rule of law.

And that was the problem, George reflected bitterly. People hated disorder. Press coverage had blamed the Riders for stirring up trouble, not the segregationists with their baseball bats and their bombs. It drove him mad with frustration: did no one in America think about what was right?

peaceful men and women whose only crime is to disagree with the government. Does this sound fantastic to you, unlikely, something that could never happen? Well, they used exactly those tactics in Germany—and it worked.

The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those freedoms from you, you better rise up and fight and that's what we're doing together.

Ha az emberrel kibasznak, akkor igenis joga van ordítani. És mivelünk kibasztak!

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

Power to the peaceful!

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

John Carlos provided the world with one of the most iconic images of the 1960s with his Black Power salute after a medal-winning performance at the 1968 summer games.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

She'd always talk about how great Gandhi was. I'd tell her the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he'd of been dead in a second, his name forgotten.

and three suicides, though one minister had tried to protest that decision that they be buried in what was now consecrated ground. That protest was greeted with icy rejection from Charlie, who was now a former member of that congregation.

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.