Protest Quotes - Page 2

• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Freedom

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  Bayard Rustin

  Acknowledge You, Society, Dignity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is a protest against death.

  Audrey Flack

  Art, Art Is

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• Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Love, Life, Family

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Tyrants, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Men, Voice

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

  John Dewey

  Answers, Action, Stimulus

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• You have a right to protest. But I don't quite understand why anybody thinks it's a good idea to deny somebody else the right to express his or her point of view.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Point Of View

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• 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

  Mean, Justice, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Establishment is always against protest.

  Philip Hart

  Establishment

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Grief, Men, Justice

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• In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

  Phil Ochs

  Ugly

  Liner notes for studio album "Pleasures of the Harbor" by Phil Ochs, October 31, 1967.

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• The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

  Assata Shakur

  Reality, People, Peaceful

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• We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

  Muhammad Ali

  War, Winning, White

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

  Hugh Masekela

  Struggle, Community, March

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• I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.

  Zendaya

  People, Unjust, Young

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Rights, Government, Safety

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• My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

  Emile Zola

  Soul, Cry, Fiery

  "J'accuse! (I Accuse!)". Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in "L'Aurore" [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Misfits, Salvation

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• Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Resistance, Agree, Disagree

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• People have a right to protest peacefully, but there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be conducting a campaign of intimidation that may be directed at anyone because of their religion or because of their background.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  People, Campaigns, May

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Advice, Complaining

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• We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Echoes, Expression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The true object of religion is to bind mankind together, and to bind them all to God. If we see that in the name of religion, men, instead of promoting peace on earth and good-will among men, are trying to show their antagonism and animosity towards each other, then certainly we must stand forward with our voice of protest, and say that religion is defeating its own legitimate object.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Men, Names, Voice

  Speech delivered at Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London, in a meeting held to constitute a Theistic Association in London, July 20, 1870.

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