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Quotes About Protest

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
~ Martin Sheen
We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.
~ Sergei Lavrov
We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
~ Hanoi Hannah
I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
We are no longer demonstrators. We are not actors, we are now people committed to the proposition that if the government won't stop the war, we will stop the government.
~ David Dellinger
This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.
~ Nikki Haley
There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
~ Peter O'Toole
Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It's also a form of peaceful protest, the right to which is another one of our values.
~ Kat Timpf
There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.
~ Russ Feingold
We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.
~ Ephraim Mirvis
Boycott is a perfectly legitimate form of democratic protest.
~ J. Jayalalithaa
People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I'm like a one-woman protest machine.
~ Lydia Lunch
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.
~ Greg Gutfeld
You can't fine somebody for a peaceful protest.
~ Davante Adams
I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.
~ DeRay Mckesson
If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so.
~ Keith Ellison
We run into police brutality often and it's always a problem that we always have to protest and speak out.
~ Polo G
In May 2011, I drove a car in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, to protest the kingdom's ban on women driving.
~ Manal al-Sharif
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
~ William O. Douglas
I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.
~ Shepard Fairey
I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.
~ Chico Hamilton
So, there are lots of different reasons why people came out to protest Boris Johnson, but what they were united in was their disdain for a system which has imposed a prime minister who is deeply divisive on the rest of the electorate.
~ Ash Sarkar
We should protest to ban NEET altogether.
~ Vetrimaaran