Quotes About Protest

What happens if you stand passively by the side of the road with a placard saying, you know, 'Stop climate change' is you just get ignored. When you get on the street and block it, people start to have a conversation about this existential situation that we're in.

To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.

This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Without falling into sociopolitical reductionism, it remains necessary to protest against the prevailing tendency, among Western scholars, to read the works of Nishida [Kitar?] and the Kyoto school as expressions of a "pure philosophy" stemming from a "pure experience.

They are rightfully tired of turning on the television and seeing videos of unarmed blacks being shot and killed by police officers. They want criminal justice reform. They want police department reform.

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

Sitting and sedition don't mix.

THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction.

Old Man, right (sighing): Death to the fascists!

She protested she'd rather freeze than wear the coat Lily had bought her. It was too big and it had a fur collar. 'It sounds rather glamorous,' he said. 'That's as maybe,' she retorted. 'It's too much trouble. You have to paint your face if you wear a fur. It draws attention.

Non-violently, peacefully, while the eyes of this country are watching these games, they take a knee to bring our attention and our focus to this problem to ensure that we fix it, that is why they are doing it. And I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights, any time, anywhere, in any place.

People ask where my political views and visions come from. That started practically when I was old enough to walk. We didn't get a TV for a while, but when we did, there was Oswald getting shot, live on TV in the living room. There was the Berlin wall going up, the bloody Vietnam war, Watergate, the race riots started by the police. Network news wasn't so censored then. You would see how badly wounded people where when they took them off the chopper. News wasn't all sanitized like it is today.

Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought—or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours is more the role of the lowly gadfly: circle and stab, circle and stab. Roughly put, our credo should be, if it's big, hit it.

It ensured that I'd never think that patriotism and dissent were opposites.

We hebben een vijand en zijn naam is Shell.

Calvin Coolidge, "There is no right to strike against the public safety, by anybody, anywhere, at any time." In

He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.

I was a blue-eyed, chubby-cheeked five-year-old when I joined my family on the picket line for the first time. My mom made me leave my dolls in the minivan. I'd stand on a street corner in the heavy Kansas humidity, surrounded by a few dozen relatives, with my tiny fists clutching a sign that I couldn't read yet: 'Gays are worthy of death.'

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.