Quotes About Protest

I hate a Roman named Status Quo

Colored people don't like the book Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator (p. 59).

La dignidad de la verdad se pierde con demasiadas protestas.

Susan Sontag as "just another scribbler who spent her life signing up for protest meetings and lumbering to the podium encumbered by her prose style, which had a handicapped parking sticker valid at Partisan Review.

Alongside the self-obsession they display and the victimhood they claim, current-day students often shout down speakers whose views they don't approve

This great humanity has said 'enough', it will not soon forget Che Guevara.

Déjenme aunque sea el derecho de pataleo que tienen los ahorcados!

Early in the anti-Vietnam War movement, Stegner marched with the students, but later, when the demonstrations turned violent, he was revolted and couldn't understand how breaking all the windows on the Stanford campus could bring an end to the war.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

La cólera ante la injusticia se llama indignación.

Jesus does not encourage Jews to walk a second mile in order to build up merit in heaven, or to be pious, or to kill the soldier with kindness. He is helping an oppressed people find a way to protest and neutralize an onerous practice despised throughout the empire. He is not giving a nonpolitical message of spiritual world transcendence. He is formulating a worldly spirituality in which the people at the bottom of society or under the thumb of imperial power learn to recover their humanity.

What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

Denounce the government and embracethe flag. Hope to live in that freerepublic for which it stands.

I'm a woman. And I'm Christian. And I believe that this regime should go.

Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty.

Harlem had needed something to smash. To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need.

You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!

The most sensitive whites merely said: "We deplore the riots but sympathize with the reason for the riots." This was tantamount to saying: "Of course we raped your women, lynched your men, and ghettoized the minds of your children and you have a right to be upset; but that is no reason for you to burn our buildings. If you people keep acting like that, we will never give you your freedom.

Their not protesting against the present sinful confederacy with papists, malignants, and other enemies of religion and godliness; contrary to the Word of God, and former practice of this Church:

Censorship thrives in silence; silence is its aim.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

William O'Neill, another historian, observed wryly that many universities prior to the rise of student unrest had at least required hard work and discipline—training for life in the real world. In some of the post-protest universities, he lamented, "The Protestant ethic gave way to the pleasure principle in college but not in life."22 Reactions such as these reflected a widespread sense among Americans that the students were spoiled brats.23

Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest.