Quotes About Protest

I cannot imagine our country not having the right to economic boycott.

You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.

Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

I've seen the police brutality.

Anita Bryant had the effect of galvanizing the whole gay movement. She was somebody whom everybody could hate. She was easy to hate.

My skin burned for 22 hours after I was pepper-sprayed.

What's more confrontational than burning cities for almost a year?

People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve the situation in the country and their life.

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice.

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

You can't sugarcoat why Kaep is not playing in the NFL. This dude played in the Super Bowl.

She was brought up in the reformed Protestant Church but left it at the age of seventeen in protest against its restrictive rules.

And the police got nervous and they began to kick us in our backs and stomachs, and the crowd shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!' and someone took a kerosene tin and began to beat it, and someone took a cattle-bell and began to ring it, and they cried, 'With them, brothers, with them!' and they leaped and they ducked and they came down to lie beside us, and we shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai! Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!

Beginning with 1 August 1920, titles were returned, thousands of students across India left the Raj's colleges, hundreds of lawyers turned their backs on the Raj's courts and, in November, prominent politicians boycotted the elections to the new provincial councils.

In 1919, when loyalist Sikhs were willing, even after the Amritsar massacre, to honour Dyer, other Sikhs formed a new pro-independence body, the Sikh League, with the Sialkot-born Baba Kharak Singh (1868-1963), who had been galvanized by the massacre, as its chief.

The Fugitive Slave Law 1851–54

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

An early gesture was to rename Harrington Road after a hero of the world communist movement, so that at the height of the Vietnam War the address of the United States Consulate was 7 Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Calcutta.

The first escape route in the problem of evil is propounded by those who protest that God cannot exist because there is too much evil evident in life. They see no logical contradiction within their system since they do not have to prove that evil coexists with a good Creator. Evil exists; therefore, the Creator does not. That is categorically stated. But