Quotes About Protest

Democrats won't let you go to work, but they'll let you riot.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Let's change the world, I want to say to her. I know you don't know me, but let's hijack this bus and go protest something. I don't even care what. I just feel like yelling. I just feel like caring about something.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.

We can't afford to be cautious. People should have a sense of anger.

Temperance workers protested the economic dependence that made married women subject to drunken husbands. Organizations of women workers sought respect and higher wages for women's labor. Women's

There was the fact that you created a political statement everywhere you went, and with everything you did, even if you didn't want to.

He was trying to get me to come inside and away from the scene, but I said, "No." I said, "We have to stay here and watch because this is wrong.

This moment is in the tradition of protest poetry and art that goes back centuries. I hope that this pain will lead to beautiful works of arts."-Anna Deavere Smith

She says that in January 1990 when the Berliners saw the smoke coming out of the chimneys they came here to protest. They brought bricks and rocks and built a symbolic wall around the building, to get the Stasi to stop burning the files. She says it is extraordinary that, with all those stones, not one was thrown and that, conversely, not one shot was fired from this building.

I'm not a writer," Merri Lee protested. "I can make notes, sure, but I can't write up something like that!" "Ruthie will help you write it." There. Problem solved. Ruthie was a teacher. She wrote sentences all the time.

A funny thing happens when the world turns, as it turned for us on the night we burned the British embassy down. You wake up the next morning and carry on.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.

Without protest, officers in The Hague supervised the transport of Jewish prisoners, and some even agreed to work as guards in Westerbork.

le vieux s'est levé, reclamant qu'ils ne soit plus traité comme des chiens, la viande a été changée

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

Just two words are enough to drive away the DMK members from the House. They are running away at the mention of 'Katchatheevu' or 'prohibition.'

If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.