Quotes About Protest

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

We've learned that quiet isn't always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn't always justice.

The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

I have never been to Ladies' Day at the Grand National. I've never been to any day there, truth be told, and unless they introduce a Scruffy People Who Believe Horse Racing to Be Deeply Cruel Day and pay me to attend I can't see that changing.

Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

There's always something to rage about, right?

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more.

When I see something wrong, I just rail against it.

I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

You know in democracy you can protest peacefully and I'm sure you know it will have at least some kind of impact. You need to raise your voice. If you can't do much, you know, but at least raise you voice. Raising your voice is something you need to do.

Investment comes to a halt in a country where sit-ins and protest rallies lead to political chaos.

There were a lot of anti-apartheid rallies and marches and concerts that we would go to as a family. And music was a big part of that. It was never just the politics.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

One of the most cherished photographs in my life is a picture of me with John Lennon - who I met back in 1971 at an anti-war rally.

People can't go into the street endlessly. My friends get asked why aren't they going to the next protest? They answer, 'Because we're tired of being thousands. I'm ready to become the 100,000th person at a rally, but I don't want to be the 10,000th. Because it's pointless.'

I think there are no good people at a white supremacist rally, and apparently that's just a real controversial take.

In 2017, long before I ran for the Senate, I was arrested at the U.S. Capitol while protesting for expanded access to health care. And as a man of faith, I was fighting long before then to get Georgians the health care they deserve because I believe health care is a human right.

We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.

The Box would not play 'Takin' These' because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller's mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.

Darling, I want my gay rights now.