Quotes About Protest

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.

People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Trick-or-treating is for candy and demonstrations are for things like Peace and Freedom. It's different.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of "the proper channels," a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.

In 2016, protesters at London's King's College disrupted a talk by Ami Ayalon, the former head of Shin Bet, Israel's version of our FBI. Students from a pro-Palestinian group chanted, threw chairs, smashed windows, and repeatedly set off the fire alarm in the room where Ayalon was speaking about the two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine situation, which is something he strongly supports.

I love him with as much protest as I can muster.

When the State silences freedom of assembly and freedom to dissent, it silences the people it is sworn to protect.

Not all of Anthony's officers, however, were eager or even willing to join Chivington's well-planned massacre. Captain Silas Soule, Lieutenant Joseph Cramer, and Lieutenant James Connor protested that an attack on Black Kettle's peaceful camp would violate the pledge of safety given the Indians by both Wynkoop and Anthony, "that it would be murder in every sense of the word," and any officer participating would dishonor the uniform of the Army.

Que es la maquinaria del PRI? Es el gobernador que manda a los maestros a marchar al DF para desquiciarla.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.