Quotes About Protest

Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

At first Welsh just stared, as did Ryan. But when the meaning of what this room might hold for him formed in Welsh's mind, he protested with a wide-eyed grunt.

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

Valía más renunciar, porque la renuncia a la acción era la protesta misma y no su máscara.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

American independence dates from the throwing of tea-chests into Boston harbour.

aint gon happen!

Every step of the way throughout my life as an athlete and activist, I felt my father's large hand on my shoulder guiding me down a path of service and justice. When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. -Bayard Rustin

Libya. A Tunisian street vendor setting himself aflame to protest police brutality in December 2010 ushered in what has become known as the Arab Spring. Mass demonstrations protesting longstanding authoritarian rule in Egypt, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, and Libya in 2011 stirred national and international debates.

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.

I'd been going to jail for like, 10 years before the Stonewall.

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

The Women's March hates Jews!

Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

The U.S. army is pretty terrible. Never join it!

When I got cleared by doctors and was coronavirus-free, one of the first things I did was get to marching in Boston. I wanted to join the people out there doing all they could to speak out against injustice and hatred and police brutality - folks looking to ensure the future of our country is better than its past.

I joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and protested at Greenham Common.

Concerning the materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell, whence the spark shall come, that shall set it on fire.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, we can no longer breathe

When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

They were all outraged," Grella said. "And then they fell into line