Quotes About Protest

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time.

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We sat down on the sidewalk in front of the White House with a banner that read 'One Million Deported Under President Obama' and refused to move when the police ordered us to.

There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and 'Chain yourself to the White House.'

Post-bifurcation, I raised my voice and sat on an indefinite fast in Guntur in October 2015. Eight days into the fast, I was forcibly evicted by the police on the pretext that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was coming to Amaravati.

The people took to the streets in July 2018 to demand change. I heard you. That's why I chose an electoral rival - notary public Jean Henry Ceant - as my prime minister.

I believe it's not 100 percent right to kneel during the national anthem, because you have to respect what many have done for this nation. I think kneeling prior to the anthem, like the Dallas Cowboys have done, is right.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

We fight people daily for respect, for our rights and for our dignity.

Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.

I think what's so powerful about Black Lives Matter is we're the first movement able to take on law enforcement and make it a popular discussion.

I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.