Quotes About Protest

Soup kitchens were the prelude to revolution. The revolutionaries might talk about socialism, those who actually revolted wanted 'the right to work'- more capitalism, not its abolition.

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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.

But you do know, as you stand alone, handcuffed, with your eyes filled with tear gas, in front of policemen who are shaking their guns at you-you can see it clearly in the dark and starless night, thanks to your favourite poet - that the course of the avalanche depends on the stone over which it rolls. And you want to be the stone that will reverse the course of events.

It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.

In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?

Chi non aveva comprensione per la politica, perdeva per ciò stesso il diritto a ogni critica e a ogni protesta

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.

And yet, protest it if we will, Some corner of the mind retains The medieval man, who still Keeps watch upon those starry skeins And drives us out of doors at night To gaze at anagrams of light.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

Actions always speak louder than words, especially when they're peaceful actions.

We have the right to peacefully assemble in the United States.

When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

Don't expect any NGO and social association to protest against this unjust covid vaccination drive because they do agitation and bandh drama only when they are paid hugely and remain funded puppet like media in the hands of government. Individuals have to fight against this atrocity alone before they become victim

Strike or Bandh is the biggest form of hooliganism stealthily orchestrated and sponsored by politicians to bedevil the population.