Quotes About Protest

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Backed into a corner, the poor can riot, but the rich start war.

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Protest hovered on her tongue. No, don't divest yourself of Daddy's things…don't forget the life you had with him…don't forget who you are. Instead she simply stared at an unfamiliar, sophisticated version of her mother and wondered how much more of her she would lose before this situation ended.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!

punk rock as an alternative," he says, "a real attempt to change the social order of the world.

rock & roll was an intrinsic part of a young person's soul, an engine of social change and not just a consumer commodity.

Underground rock protested not just with its sound but in the way it was recorded, marketed, and distributed

Civil unrest occurs when the feelings of overwhelming powerlessness hit critical mass.

The intrusion of the government into our lives is pervasive. Where do we make a stand? I'm making mine right here.

civil unrest instead of rioting.

Thousands upon thousands of government employees take to the streets to protest the bill. Here is Greece's version of the Tea Party: tax collectors on the take, public-school teachers who don't really teach, well-paid employees of bankrupt state railroads whose trains never run on time, state hospital workers bribed to buy overpriced supplies.

When Wells-Barnett wrote in 1900, "It is now, even as it was in the days of slavery, an unpardonable sin for a Negro to resist a White man no matter how unjust or unprovoked the White man's attack may be," we might say that this still can be the case in certain situations and locales—especially if the White man is dressed in a blue uniform and wears a badge.

What we have seen the Russians do is attempt to manipulate public confidence on both sides. So we've seen them encourage people go to a protest on one side; we've seen them simultaneously encourage people to go to that same protest on the other side.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.

When something happens in Africa, an artist will sing about it and stuff. We have all the records; we have everything. Free Mandela records and all that.

We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.