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Quotes About Protest

I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
~ Edward Abbey
Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight like men! like women! like human beings! and walk-walk-WALK upon our sweet and blessed land!
~ Edward Abbey
Grow a beard, take a bath, burn a billboard
~ Edward Abbey
No taxation without representation.
~ Anonymous
Just say no.
~ Anonymous
Overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.
~ Anonymous
To your tents, O Israel.
~ Anonymous
Ami, entends-tuLe vol noir—des corbeaux—sur nos plaines…Ami, entends-tuLes cris sourds—du pays—qu'on enchaine.
~ Anonymous: French
When you ask the government for freedom, the stupidity of your petition is instant proof to the latter that you have no grasp of your rights.
~ ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?
~ Anthony Doerr
Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.
~ Joan Cusack
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
~ Alan Moore
With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.
~ Ava DuVernay
The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.
~ Killer Mike
I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
~ Mike Watt
Why do you all push us around?
~ Rosa Parks
Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.
~ Cindy Sheehan
Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.
~ Mehbooba Mufti
LGBT people are at the heart of President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on democracy.
~ Kerry Kennedy
Vladimir Putin has to create foreign enemies, and he also has to justify... he has to claim... he can't acknowledge that there's a legitimate protest against his authoritarian rule, so he's got to blame it on Hilary Clinton.
~ Bill Browder
I am an activist for putting an end to the criminalisation of abortion.
~ Alberto Fernandez
We've seen a lot of people come together, no matter the race, and have support of black people. I think that's a huge thing. I don't know if it's going to fix all our issues, but I think it's a step in the right direction. I go out and I've protested, I've marched.
~ Michael Carter-Williams
The Coup does not support the American flag.
~ Boots Riley