Quotes About Protest

When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has been oppressive to not just Black people but to women, to members of the LGBTQ community.

Hollywood has a long, storied and often problematic history of political protest movements.

My mum taught me the power of protest.

I celebrate political protest, it is necessary and protected for a reason, but make it good people!

Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us. Beyond that, it's always interesting to note that it expanded the idea of democracy.

Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest.

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

My father was never really a big part of my life, he ended up passing away a few years ago, my biological father. And the guy I consider my dad, he was incarcerated for a crime he didn't even commit, which is part of the reason I protest.

We fully support the right of citizens to peacefully protest and are committed to protecting that right.

I fully support everyone's individual right to protest their government.

I don't want to protest. I want to get into power.

The Constitution protects our right to peacefully protest injustices, but violence has no place in our civic discourse.

You are free to protest peacefully, but the minute you use violence and attack police, all bets are off.

I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.

The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

As an American, you have the right to protest me or another individual or a group, but I believe that protesting the United States for the mistakes it has made - when it gave you the freedom to do so in the first place - is disrespectful.

When my people are dying, that's when you gonna catch me protesting. I'm not gonna protest because somebody got offered not the amount of money they wanted to get offered. If you don't like what they're offering you, just no longer do business with them.

Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

I have been arrested several times protesting.

I do not understand why Muslims are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act. CAA is not for the Muslims who were born here.