Quotes About Protest

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 syllables in unison. p. 100

Estoy pensando en el redactor que organizaba la recogida de firmas para la amnistía de los presos políticos en Praga. Sabía perfectamente que aquello no ayudaría a los presos. El verdadero objetivo no era liberar a los presos, sino demostrar que aún había gente que no tenía miedo. Lo que hacía era teatro. Pero no tenía otra posibilidad. No podía elegir entre actuar o hacer teatro. La disyuntiva era: hacer teatro o no hacer nada.

[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country.

If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

Whoever said you can't have a revolution without the French should be guillotined.

The thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love your fate.

What evidence do you have that the black people in your country are ready to rise against the regime? A true revolution begins from the soil, from the grass roots. It is the final cry of despair from the ground up. Have you heard the cry "freedom?

There is always a choice. You mean I could choose certain death? A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

But I don't believe in reincarnation! he protested. SQUEAK. And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in you .

Once you get troops on the streets, it's only a matter of time before it goes bad. Some kid throws a stone, next minute there's houses on fire and people getting killed.

Crawling out of the flophouse I saw the mayor stealing my junk I doth protest, citizen's arrest Now my body's in his trunk Where's the shadow government when you need it? Where's the shadow government? It's a bad, bad world!

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King.

I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

I think the fact people still don't realise why people are taking a knee and saying 'Black Lives Matter,' people are being so close-minded to the fact that no one is disrespecting the flag, nobody is saying all lives don't matter.

I think, in a large way, it's, 'OK, you've knelt; you've made your point.' But I don't necessarily feel like that. I don't know what that looks like. Do I kneel forever? I don't know, probably not. But I think until I can feel like I'm being more effective in other ways, then this seems appropriate to me.

I don't think kneeling during the anthem is such a bad thing.

The kneeling and everything, I think it really only sort of solidifies who I am as a person and the things that I stand for.

At some point in time, we're going to have to stop addressing the kneeling, and we're going to have to start addressing what led Colin Kaepernick to kneel. That's the issue that nobody wants to talk about.

We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.