Protest Quotes - Page 28

• We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Country, War

  "Ivins: Stand up against the surge" by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. January 11, 2007.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

  Daniel Handler

  Facts, Clear, Audience

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Criticism, Welcome, Courses

  Source: www.believermag.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mere fact that my comments have caused such strong protests, although I'm not a European, and also the fact that I have been compared with certain persons in German history indicates how charged with conflict the atmosphere for research is in your country. Here in Iran you needn't worry.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Strong, Iran

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Thinking, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Land, Democracy

  4 Copy quote

• Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Kids, Figures, Questioning

  "LETTER FROM THE AMERICAS; Che Today? More Easy Rider Than Revolutionary" by Larry Rohter, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2004.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

  Maya Angelou

  Air, Sky, Voice

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

  493 Copy quote

  Show source

• But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Powerful, Media

  14 Copy quote

• I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

  Johnny Carson

  Thinking, Anarchy, Students

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither. I would have a moral sentiment party. I would know the private character of my candidate, would know also whether he takes care of his own property - whether he had failed in business - if so, whether he had paid back every dollar of debt as fast as he had earned them. Yes, every candidate should be examined morally, and if it be found that he has not been true to the monitions of conscience in one direction, he cannot or will not be in another.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Party, Character, One Direction

  6 Copy quote

• Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."

  Boyd K. Packer

  Men, Worry, Messages

  4 Copy quote

• I love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can protest if somebody does something really obviously wrong or inhuman right in front of me, where I can make a difference. Where I can most especially elevate, make you happy, elevate the condition, elevate the thing.

  David Crosby

  Song, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

  Azadeh Moaveni

  Thinking, Kind, Difficult

  "Lipstick Jihad: An Interview With Azadeh Moaveni". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 9, 2005.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

  Dave Wakeling

  Beautiful, Mean, Hopeful

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

  John Piper

  Men, Compassion, Mercy

  7 Copy quote

• How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what futility. It is perhaps a more public epic in this regard, and carries a ritual vocalization.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Epic, Lifetime

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

  Colin Wilson

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Colin Wilson (2014). “The Outsider”, p.370, Diversion Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Able, Courageous, States

  4 Copy quote

• It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Prayer, Exercise, Two

  25 Copy quote

• ...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

  Noam Chomsky

  Justice, Democracy, Cost

  4 Copy quote

• ...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.

  C. D. Broad

  Silly, Mean, Writing

  6 Copy quote

• Egypt is indeed deeply divided. Without reconciliation we have no future. The Muslim Brotherhood is an important part of our society. I very much hope that it will participate in the next round of talks. I will be the first to protest if the imperative of fairness isn't adhered to.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Egypt, Brotherhood, Important

  "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism.

  Shepard Fairey

  Country, Team, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  40 Copy quote

  Show source