Quotes About Protest

I would rather live in a world where people shout, "This is wrong." than live in a world with superheroes saving the day.

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

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Dès qu'on entre en lutte contre la guerre, on entre en lutte contre le gouvernement.

What kind of protest declines dialogue with its opponent?" "A modern one," Francine said dryly. "These kids are not like we were. You were," she corrected. "Interaction across the battle lines isn't what they're after. They want to build their own constituencies. They want to represent something to their peers more than they want to gain respect from their opponents.

I heard there was a riot.' 'There was a demonstration, which I think is different. It was peaceful until it was interrupted.' Mason seemed to be thinking hard about it. 'What sort of demonstration?' 'Hmm... A new kind. It looked poetical at first but then became rather poletical.

Bundists marched regularly in Times Square, demanding that all "foreigners" be sent back to their own countries and no more admitted; New York had its own share of Nazi sympathizers and American Aryanists.

Norman Morrison soaked himself in petrol and burned himself on the steps of the Pentagon in protest against the Vietnam war...Would it perhaps have taken greater courage to set fire to the President? A body of men who sleep soundly on a daily programme of sanctioned mass-murder are surely only distrubed by personal danger.

Another story tells of Grogan, passing through New York, performed a public burning of dollar bills, and the dollar dropped six points on Wall Street.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928) You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

Today literature must either be protest or consolation

Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.

It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)

The roar of an angry crowd is one of the most terrifying sounds in the world.

Nay!" he shouted out loud

It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them. Parsons

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was all right for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

their nineteen-sixties with the flowers in the guns and their summers of love, as if all we'd had was winter, all we'd had was rations. Just very good at keeping quiet, is what we were. We had to be. It was the way. Them with their jet-age.

Detta gör dem rasande. Bra. De är från generationen som njuter av att vara rasande

Anyway, it was her job to subvert political things with art things, and to subvert art things with political things. Like

refusal to abide by the rules of democracy

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.