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Quotes About Protest

I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.
~ Richard Littlejohn
Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
~ Quentin Tarantino
The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
~ Desmond Tutu
Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.
~ Bill Hicks
Intellectuals sign petitions, perhaps march in the streets, attempt their own soundbites when broadcasting, but confine their extended energies to debate and discourse among themselves.
~ Stephen Chan
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
~ Stephen Colbert
Isn't that why you want to shoot yourself? To make a protest against change?
~ Stephen Dobyns
The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling bacon and dedicated it to the doomed man.
~ Stephen G. Michaud
The event had been organized by the International Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the "Wobblies," who had engaged in protests across America, sweeping eastward from the Rocky Mountain states,
~ Stephen Puleo
When we talk about property, State, masters, government, laws, courts, and police, we say only that we don't want any of them." William
~ Stephen Puleo
TC Campbell doesn't need any introduction, the man is a legend in the prison community and outside when this very strong-minded man was trying to prove his innocence for the six murders he had been convicted for. TC went on a fifty-day hunger strike, he ended up in hospital. This man was willing to die to prove his innocence, if he never done his famous hunger strike he probably would have never go the MPS in government to sit up and take note.
~ Stephen Richards
When practiced, Sabbath-keeping is an active protest against a culture that is always on, always available and always looking for something else to do.
~ Stephen W. Smith
taxi cab turns into Masao Tanaka Way, inching its way through a throng of protestors. The lone passenger stretched out in the backseat shakes
~ Steve Alten
Boycott is a widely understood form of social, economic, and political action.
~ Steve Crawshaw
The only bombshells that strike my fancy are the ones that will free the proletariat from the shackles of wage slavery.
~ Steve Hockensmith
Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
~ Ann Druyan
Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.
~ Vladimir Putin
The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.
~ Richard Neal
If what you want is actual change, then what has to be built is a mass movement that is militant and can use direct action to slow or stop profit. A movement that can do that can demand whatever it wants.
~ Boots Riley
There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.
~ DeRay Mckesson
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
~ Morrissey
Dumneavoastr? nu sunteÈ›i Dostoievski, zise cet??eana pe care Koroviev c?uta s-o z?p?ceasc?. - Cine È™tie, cine È™tie, obiecta pezevenchiul. - Dostoievski a murit, zise femeia, dar nu prea convins?. - Protestez ! exclam? cu înfl?c?rare Koroviev. Dostoievski e nemuritor !
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Usted no es Dostoyevski —dijo la ciudadana, desconcertada, dirigiéndose a Koróviev. —¿Quién sabe?, ¿quién sabe? —contestó él. —Dostoievski ha muerto —dijo la ciudadana, pero no muy convencida. —¡Protesto! —exclamó Popota con calor—. ¡Dostoievski es inmortal!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.
~ Milan Kundera