Quotes About Protest
The alleged music preached of the wrongs democracy had perpetrated on the people and how to protest against the causes of their pain, which would be, according to the fascist propagandists, the police, the military, the rich and the current American government. His ballads were to call for youth and the downtrodden to unite and fight against poverty, injustice and social ills — by destroying the American way of life. Radio
~ Louis L'Amour
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Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore. Broken bones and blood and gore, my fair lady. "We don't have no school no more, school no more, school no more. We don't have no school no more, my fair lady.
~ Louis Sachar
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haunted by image after image. People kneeling, beaten. People singing, beaten. Mothers, beaten. Fathers, beaten. Young, beaten. Old, knocked down or beaten. If you approached the police, beaten. If you ran away, kettled, then beaten. Pollux had known good people, seen lives saved by his fellow patrol officers. So who was doing the beating? The uniforms or those inside them? How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really
~ Louise Erdrich
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Rockefeller spent a ridiculous amount of time protesting bills both large and small and scrutinized the smallest bills from grocers and butchers.
~ Ron Chernow
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Rockefeller always felt uneasy about venting anger or making an egotistical show of protest, and he pretended to accept this demotion with equanimity.
~ Ron Chernow
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All the pent-up frustrations produced by the accelerated change of the late nineteenth century were vented in spontaneous, often violent dissent.
~ Ron Chernow
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If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
~ Ron Chernow
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The paradox lies in the fact that even if I do not want to be a colonizer, and have even protested against colonialism, I am a colonizer by the mere fact of membership in the nation that colonizes others. Only at the price of renouncing my own country and nation, and perhaps at the price of changing my skin color (a theoretical proposition), could I rid myself of this taint, this odium.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
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The system is corrupt, a young man on a bicycle shouted, and if it cannot be changed it must be destroyed. The mastodon revolution is here and you must all choose which side of history you want to be on.
~ Salman Rushdie
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Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?
~ Sam Harris
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I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
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Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.
~ Fredrik Bajer
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We admire people who oppose the regime in totalitarian country and think they have courage or a strong moral sense or have remained true to their principles and the like. We may also smile at their naïveté, thinking, Don't they realise that their words are of no use at all against this oppressive power? That they will hath to pay dearly for their protest?
~ Alice Miller
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Pero si hablamos de amor, ahí no valen opiniones. Porque yo sé lo que es. Yo he amado y he sido amado. Y bendigo a Dios por haberme dado suficientes luces para saber que al amor no hay quien lo pare, por más que algunos gruñen y protesten.
~ Alice Walker
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They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.
~ Alice Walker
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What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
~ Allen Ginsberg
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America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
~ Allen Ginsberg
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who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism
~ Allen Ginsberg
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We the People - shelling the Vietcong
~ Allen Ginsberg
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America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb
~ Allen Ginsberg
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Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence
~ Allen Ginsberg
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Scream in despair over Meat and Metal Microphone
~ Allen Ginsberg
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Mothers weep and Sons be dumb your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV
~ Allen Ginsberg
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I'm not sorry (America)
~ Allen Ginsberg
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