Quotes About Protest

We been in the streets protesting for years about police brutality.

I've just always done what I've felt is best, according to what the Bible tells me. That's why I started protesting, and that's what I continue to do every day.

Protesting is a fundamental aspect of our democracy, and I will always encourage this course of action, but it can be intimidating.

To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.

We won't stop protesting. It's the engine that moves society forward.

I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.

Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.

Poverty leads to protests.

Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.

Wars don't start nowadays because people want them. We long for peace, and fill our newspapers with conferences about disarmament and arbitration, but there is a radical instability in our whole world order, and soon we shall all be walking into the jaws of destruction again, protesting our pacific intentions.

There are two ways of rejecting the revolution. The first is to refuse to see it where it exists; the second is to see it where it manifestly will not occur.

Of course I've got one--a man can't live without a moral code. Mine is that I'm against the burning of witches. Whenever they burn a witch I get all hot under the collar.

I do, she protested; I want to stand on the street corner like a sandwich man, informing all the passers-by.

You're a rotten driver', I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It's just unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurls stones, echoes of unknown voices – a collective mishmash of life.

I've always been fascinated with the '60s in general.

I was born in the 1980s, so learning about the late 1960s was really fascinating, not only just because of the way things looked and sounded but because of what was going on in society at that time.

We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

We are revolutionary anti-imperialist resistance fighters.

I'm interested in figuring out what freedom songs would sound like in 2016.

I think the moment anybody seriously tampers with the First Amendment, you're going to see an outcry.

I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA.