Quotes About Protest

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

SHE FELT a hard pinch on her neck. "Hey!" she protested. Her eyelids flew open. The light was unbearably bright, just as painful, but everything was gauzy and indistinct, like there was a white scrim over everything. She wondered whether she'd fallen back asleep for several hours.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar's chest and muttered a few arcane words.

Apart from whether collectivism, the "communist vermin," is a danger to decent life, the communism gnawing at his entrails was no more than a natural longing for something better, a protest against persistent hunger transformed into a love for this strange doctrine, whose essence he could never grasp but whose translation, "bread for the poor," was something which he understood and, more importantly, filled him with hope.

We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.

Qué es el cáncer?", pensó. "Pues un atentado terrorista cometido por Dios. Qué hace Dios si no cometer atentados como protesta ante...algo, algo tan elevado y trascendente que ni siquiera alcanzamos a captarlo?

What is cancer, he thought to himself, if not a terrorist attack from above? What is it that God is doing, if not terrorizing us in protest against...something. Something so lofty and transcendental that it is beyond our grasp?

Dis tog presies waarteen Biko en Fanon en wie ook al protesteer. Jy moet eers 'n klein Engelsmannetjie word voordat jy burger van die moderne wêreld mag wees? "Wat

If we don't know where we are going, any road will get us there. But if we have a destination - in this case a life lived to the glory of God - there is a well-marked way, the Jesus-revealed Way. Spiritual theology is the attention that we give to the details of living life on this way. It is a protest against theology depersonalized into information about God; it is a protest against theology functionalized into a program of strategic planning for God.

re: Matthew 4) " 'Give in for now': what a strange thing for Jesus to say to a steadfast and protesting prophet; and yet what a comforting thing for those of us who cannot live in fiercely absolute ways. ... Jesus the Lord enters our life as it is and calls us not away but more deeply into it.

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

The failure of both Congress and state legislatures to respond to the murder of George Floyd with any meaningful action reminds us that our nation's attempts at reform can often amount to nothing.

The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you know, if you look at the original picture where people addressed it, I was trying to sit behind the coolers and out of the way, 'cause I didn't want to interrupt anybody else's right to stand and hold attention to the flag.

Newsflash: Americans don't want to watch athletes who hate America representing America.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

The seed of revolution is repression.

'American Idiot' is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it's become an anthem of a generation.