Quotes About Protest

If you can't say Fuck you can't say, Fuck the government.

Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.

They were the weary down there, the craggy-faced, knobby, leather-handed toilers rehearsing their own demise, yielding in pitiful weakness to the scythe of mystery kept poised a lifetime at their jugulars … too simple and too tired to protest … too frightened to seek the truth … succumbed in silence, for without it … what was there left to believe?

Parnell's star had zenithed. The aloof man who spoke loudest by listening, the unemotional exterior which wept within at injustice, the shy man whose moral strength was powerfully evident, the Protestant who fought the Catholic cause, the Anglo-ascendancy landowner who led the landless, the Cambridge-educated genius who alone was able to rally and control an effective conglomeration of wild Irishmen. Charles Stewart Parnell, indeed, was the uncrowned king of Ireland.

LESS BREAD! MORE TAXES!—and then all the people cheered again, and one man, who was more excited than the rest, flung his hat high into the air, and shouted (as well as I could make out) "Who roar for the Sub-Warden?" Everybody roared, but whether it was for the Sub-Warden, or not, did not clearly appear: some were shouting "Bread!" and some "Taxes!", but no one seemed to know what it was they really wanted.

A bonfire billowed up. Some in the crowd tossed copies of Ladybird's book into the fire while a librarian pleaded with them not to do that and grabbed a fire extinguisher.* *Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

Small acts of resistance matter!

What are you doing?" she cried in protest. "Playing," he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.

The timid may say, "What is the use? We shall be sent to prison." To them I would reply: Even if only two percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, as well as urge means other than war of settling international disputes, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

If his country should be robbed of her liberties, he should still not despair. The protest of the Right against the Fact persists forever.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?