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• Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, Imagination, Action

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

  Paul Kantner

  Life, Inspire, Albums

  Interview by Patricia Kennealy, www.jeffersonstarshipsf.com. February, 1971.

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• Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

  Kumari Jayawardena

  Country, Women, Struggle

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• Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

  Adolf Hitler

  Genius, New Inventions, Mass

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• It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

  Craig Reucassel

  Funny, Goal, Chance

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• Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity.

  Vida Goldstein

  Spiritual, Women, Humanity

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• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Giving, Benefits

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• Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around.

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Powerful, Egypt

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• once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

  Aesop

  Sweet, Sea, Rivers

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• He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teeth, Juicy, Pears

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Spiritual, Silence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

  Kristin Hannah

  Flow, Slides, Lost

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• I protest against any absolute conclusion.

  George Eliot

  Conclusion, Absolutes

  George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

  Lady Gaga

  Speaks Out, Church, Monsters

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• Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Germany, Stopping, Resistance

  Ulrike Meinhof (2011). “Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof”, p.31, Seven Stories Press

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• She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying?

  Dennis Lehane

  Crazy, People, Genius

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• There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. the flneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

  Walter Benjamin

  Turtles, People, Personality

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• I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

  Jane Austen

  Distance, Land, Comfort

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.174, BookBaby

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• Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

  Eddie Vedder

  Art, Thinking, May

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Mean, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.26, Random House

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• Well, I would turn into a dragon and fly you home, but something tells me you would protest. (Sebastian) No doubt. I imagine the scales would also chafe my skin. (Channon) True. Not to mention, I once learned the hard way that they really do call the military out on you. You know, fighter jets are hard to dodge when you have a forty-foot wingspan. (Sebastian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Military, Home, Dragons

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Dragonswan”, p.19, Penguin

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• Marcus: Cherry? Jillian: My ten-year-old niece. Marcus: She's named after a piece of fruit? Jillian nodded. Jillian: So is her twin sister, Apple. Marcus: You're kidding me. Jillian: Unfortunately, I'm serious. Their father is fond of fruit pies and thought it would be cute. Marcus: And their mother didn't protest? Jillian: She thinks Steven's cute, so she gives him whatever he wants.

  Gena Showalter

  Cute, Mother, Niece

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• Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

  John Knowles

  Sarcasm, Weak

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• I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete... This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Beach, Squares

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

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• When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

  William James

  Children, Men, Thinking

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.293, Harvard University Press

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