Quotes About Protest

Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.

Yes my husband is a vegetarian. But we are still against the Jallikattu ban.

For one, when has Jay-Z ever taken a knee to come out and tell us that we're past kneeling? Yes, he's done a lot of great work, a lot of great social justice work. But for you to get paid to go into an NFL press conference and say that we're past kneeling? Again, asinine.

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.

Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid their fare just like the white passengers.

I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars.

The walk of migrant workers towards their home is a march against the stripping of their democratic rights. With their walk, they are defying the system, walking on roads which they are not allowed to tread.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

I'd like to win an Oscar and then refuse it so I can protest the way they've treated Marlon Brando.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

Black lives matter' doesn't mean that all lives do not matter, rather it is a cry for equal treatment in the greater circle of justice for all Americans.

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.

I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two years.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

We didn't do anything illegal, All we ever did was be black.. #BlackLivesMatter

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'