Protest Quotes - Page 14

• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not known for a generation." After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it "the vulgarization which has been the almost invariable consequence of business supremacy.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Years, Intellectual, Twenties

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter (p. 4), 1974.

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• We knowingly chose to protest in the Christ the Savior Cathedral, the most important church in the country, to denounce the connection between the church and Putin.

  Yekaterina Samutsevich

  Country, Important, Church

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First World War wasn't fought for that reason. The Second World War wasn't fought for that reason. Your entire country and way of life could be overtaken.

  John Boyne

  Country, War, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches tend to be rather soft on political issues. T.D. Jakes doesn't take a major stand on political issues. Creflo Dollar certainly doesn't.

  Anthony B Pinn

  Political, Black, Church

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.

  Zainab al-Khawaja

  Human Rights, Silent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The people in the West are supposed to believe that Bahrain is a country whose people live a life of peace, but we suffer under a regime that does not want to hear our screaming. The people of more than 20 villages are participating in the protests. They are fed up with the fact that they cannot express their opinions freely.

  Zainab al-Khawaja

  Country, Believe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was working in the gap where Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted communism and Warhol appropriated the protest image and named it riot, which is precisely what King didn't want his cause to be associated with. But that was the very thing that made it sexy to the art world. So I played between the two associations.

  Kelley Walker

  Sexy, Art, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a unique component of music that is different from, the written pamphlet or a speech. There's something, when you get the right combination of rhythm, melody and the right lyrical couplet, that feels like truth in the reptilian brain. There's something hardwired in our D.N.A.. And when you get a large group of people singing together in solidarity, it's something that, in my experience, and I've played countless demonstrations and protests through the years, it's something that can really help a struggle.

  Tom Morello

  Struggle, Unique, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. We formed sort of a laser beam of protest. Every painter, every writer, every stand-up comedian, every composer, every novelist, every poet aimed in the same direction. Afterwards, the power of this incredible new weapon dissipated.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Artist

  Source: www.sharedhost.progressive.org

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• The truest protest is beauty.

  Phil Ochs

  Truest

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• I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from.

  Justin Broadrick

  Spiritual, Political, Backgrounds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think every person in a group has a right to protest something and not like something. I always find it to be interesting when people take that position before they've seen it.

  Ryan T. Murphy

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

  Rand Paul

  Decision, Grandfather, Boards

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• Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can't grow further in the barrio.

  Bocafloja

  Cutting, Exercise, Organization

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.

  Bocafloja

  Community, Doe, Speech

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.

  Gus Van Sant

  School, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

  Franz Liszt

  Numbers, Musician, Firsts

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• When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

  Mo Rocca

  War, People, Focus

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• It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

  Woodrow Wilson

  World, Way, Explanation

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• I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Inward

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.

  Cecily McMillan

  War, School, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just keep thinking of how many times I`ve heard Ferguson effect. And I`ve heard it because of protests, officers are afraid to do their job because of - because of a YouTube effect.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Jobs, Thinking, Ferguson

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

  Trent Lott

  Responsibility, People, Want

  "Two Former Senators Share Thoughts On The 2016 Campaign". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. January 25, 2016.

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• An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

  Benjamin Crump

  Innocent Person, People, Police

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.

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• Jesse Owens had to be a very strong person. There were a lot of protests, but I think that he knew, despite the pressure on both sides, the pressure to go and the pressure not to go, he had to do it for himself. Unknowingly, he changed the world and broke so many barriers by doing so, by being a leader.

  Stephan James

  Strong, Thinking, Leader

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