Protest Quotes - Page 10

• 'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.

  Jonathan Raban

  War, Party, Race Riots

  "Sipping with the Tea Party" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There are three ways in which one can deal with an injustice. (a) One can accept it without protest. (b) On can seek to avoid it. (c) One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.

  Bayard Rustin

  Believe, Political, Three

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• The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Nice, Giving

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.

  Joan Baez

  Heart, Soldier, Mind

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• Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

  James Hillman

  Moving, Ideas, Our World

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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• I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. Martin Sheen The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Fire, Government, Long

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• Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

  Albert Camus

  Life And Death, Evil, Unity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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• I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Delight, Mirth

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• I think, you know, that Trump has been incredibly divisive. I think he's insulted almost every group in America. I think his policies are outrageous. But in America, people have a right to hold rallies. So I think my own feeling is it is absolutely appropriate for thousands of people to protest at a Trump rally, but I am not great fan of disrupting rallies.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: info.msnbc.com

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• American election was really personal for Putin because he believed that Clinton is a personal enemy. He genuinely believed she was behind the Moscow protests in 2012, 2011.

  Andrei Soldatov

  Enemy, Election, Clinton

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear. We could do great things with our hair. We had protest badges that read "I belong to the Blank Generation." It was such a great time to be a kid.

  Boy George

  Kids, Clothes, Hair

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do so. The main difference between the protests of 2011-2012 and these protests today is that they didn't have permits. These were - the people who were coming out into the streets were very young people, for the most part, who knew that they were all risking arrest. It's an extraordinary event.

  Masha Gessen

  People, Today, First Time

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

  William Kunstler

  Favors, Certain, Used

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

  William Kunstler

  Today, Needs, Type

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.

  Allard K. Lowenstein

  Real, Thinking, Values

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of mass protests by changing laws, by making it possible to arrest anybody for protests, and by making basically a show of imprisoning not just protest leaders, and not specifically protest leaders, but activists, rank-and-file protest participants. That gets across the idea that anybody who joins a protest without being an organizer, without being a visible leader, risks arrest, and not risks just arrest, but years in a Russian jail.

  Masha Gessen

  Past, Leader, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.

  David Swanson

  Country, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In our constitutional system, the extent of political controversies, including the protests, surrounding a given issue is utterly unrelated to the analysis of legality and should have no effect on any court.

  David B. Rivkin

  Issues, Should Have, Political

  "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.

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• Look at how many victim groups there are. And they all happen to be Democrat constituency groups. They all are on the protest march. They're all angry; they're all enraged.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Groups, Looks, March

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There was so much fake news in Wisconsin, that Scott Walker stuff, they had fake polls. The protests in Madison, which is where the University of Wisconsin is, perfect examples of the use of fake news, trying to make Walker - really they tried to dispirit Walker's supporters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Perfect, Fake, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We as a society have created rules and laws and systems that not only are transphobic and homophobic but they’re also racist and they’re sexist. Because we’re all brought up in the middle of that, whether we want to admit it or not, we’re all on some level racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic. It makes it difficult for other people when we turn a blind eye to it. We don’t agree with the laws that are going, but we don’t vote against them. We don’t like what our leaders are doing, but we don’t pick up the phone and call them. We don’t stand up and protest.

  Jeff Varner

  Eye, People, Leader

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• The other thing that has changed - and this is more detailed to CPAC than the general Republican Party - is they have always been an outsider, Ann Coulter, sort of protest style, a little ruder than most Republicans. And this goes back all the way to [Ronald] Reagan.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Style, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The White House is dismissing these fiery town halls as the result of professional protesters. Well, that`s exactly how President [Barack] Obama team`s and Democrats dismissed the 2009 town halls and Tea Party protests.

  Chuck Todd

  Team, Party, White

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Giving

  Source: info.msnbc.com

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• We are looking at live pictures at this moment of a protest that is happening in Atlanta, Georgia, I believe, that has been assembled by the NAACP in protest, of course, of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.

  Chris Hayes

  Believe, Atlanta, Shooting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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