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Quotes About Protest

Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
You go to a protest, and you've got all these different groups saying things you don't necessarily agree with. If I went to a protest, my placard would have to be very long, explaining the ins and outs of my position.
~ Mike Bartlett
My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.
~ Jake Tapper
Freedom is a part of protest as well.
~ Andrew Whitworth
Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.
~ DeRay Mckesson
Back in high school, I had this folk protest band, and I used to write all the time. And then, when I got in The B-52s, we began to write collectively, collaboratively - most all of our songs are written by jamming together.
~ Kate Pierson
Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.
~ Stan Van Gundy
A protest is supposed to be public. How can you do it if you don't do it in front of an audience?
~ Jeffrey Osborne
If players want to protest, let them do it on their own time and on their own dime.
~ Matt Gaetz
Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.
~ Eric Reid
It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest.
~ Eric Reid
Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.
~ Joy Reid
India is the biggest democracy. We have the right to say what we want to say, and people have the right to protest.
~ Jackie Shroff
I decided to protest in 2016 because I was feeling helpless and somebody needed to do something.
~ Kenny Stills
We will continue our protest with our course on free elections.
~ Joshua Wong
If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead of protest songs.
~ Robert Christgau
The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.
~ Greta Thunburg
I think our fans and NFL fans are very passionate about our country and our men and women who fight for our freedom, our freedom to free speech and free protest for that matter.
~ Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
People wanted to protest, and Ukip's a conduit for that.
~ Ann Widdecombe
Portland has a proud history of protest.
~ Ted Wheeler
There is a right to protest in our country, but at times the manner in which the protest is done breaks all permissible levels. I don't agree with it at all.
~ Balachandra Menon
I feel like if a dude wants to get his point across and wants to protest, I feel like he has the right to do that.
~ Bam Adebayo
I have formulated several levels of protest in my 'Sarabjit Bachao Andolan.' The first level is to get the active participation of the entire Punjab entertainment industry. I am also formulating and framing letters to the Indian Prime Minister and President.
~ Raza Murad
In countries like the U.S., the courts have upheld the right to burn the national flag as a mark of protest or expression. In India, by contrast, we routinely get hysterical if the flag is ever taken out of the boundaries of officialdom.
~ Barkha Dutt