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Quotes About Protest

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
The '60s were an amazing time.
~ Peter Max
I don't have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.
~ Jerry Vlasak
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.
~ Jon Lee Anderson
When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.
~ Willie D
Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.
~ Chuck Todd
I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time.
~ David Letterman
In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.
~ Marilyn French
Leer es protestar contra las insuficiencias de la vida
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Leer es protestar contra las insuficiencias de la vida. Quien busca en la ficción lo que no tiene, dice, sin necesidad de decirlo, ni siquiera saberlo, que la vida tal como es, no nos basta para colmar nuestra sed de absoluto fundamento de la condición humana, y que debería ser mejor. Inventamos las ficciones, para poder vivir de alguna manera, las muchas vidas que quisiéramos tener, cuando a penas disponemos de una sola.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Todo liberal debe ser un agitador».
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)
~ Marisha Pessl
Opposition to the war was becoming fashionable. Popular figures—intellectuals, athletes, musicians—stepped up to announce their opposition
~ Mark Bowden
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even tacitly take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you are free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.
~ Mark Kurlansky
One result of the tea boycott was that Americans very quickly became coffee drinkers.
~ Mark Kurlansky
La no violencia, exactamente igual que la violencia, es una forma de persuadir, una técnica para el activismo político, un sistema para prevalecer. La
~ Mark Kurlansky
The hope that every believer could walk with and serve God on equal footing with every other believer and have no mediator but Christ didn't originate with our generation. Even Martin Luther, great reformationist that he was, didn't invent this reality, though it was part of his historic posting and protest of 95 theses nailed to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517.
~ Mark Perry
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
~ Mark Steyn
Albert's shutters may have kept out the suffragettes: they did not effectively exclude the Furies.
~ Anthony Powell
Unfortunately, nearly ten years after the publication of Peter Plymley, Smith was protesting in a country where 'No Popery' was still the most popular election battle cry.
~ Antonia Fraser
These ferocious riots were in fact a protest against the Catholic Relief Act which had received the Royal Assent of George III in June 1778.
~ Antonia Fraser
LYSISTRATA All right then— we have to give up all male penises. [The women react with general consternation]
~ Aristophanes
Les révolutions enracinent les bruits populaires et les haines. Le premier coup de fusil tiré, rien ne s'explique ; les passions s'exaltent et, ne pouvant s'entendre, on se tue.
~ Armand de Caulaincourt
Instantly, there had been cries of protest from the industrial archaeologists, outraged at such vandalism, and from the naturalists, who pointed out that the penguins simply loved the abandoned pipeline.
~ Arthur C. Clarke