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• Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

  John Berger

  Justice, Littles, Shouting

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• In Chicago some anti-Mitt Romney protesters told reporters they're being paid to protest. They said they're being paid by Democrats to stand outside and chant anti-Romney slogans. Well, who says President Obama isn't creating any new jobs?

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Creating, New Job

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• Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nature, Believe, Hero

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.502, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

  Ralph Ellison

  Art, Goya, Social

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Please Me, Doe, Resistance

  "From Protest to Resistance" (p. 5), May 1968.

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• Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.

  Armand Nassery

  Dream, Reality, Love Is

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• The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

  Lew Wallace

  Inscriptions, After Death, Monument

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.454, e-artnow

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• It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Gay, Rights

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful.

  Rupert Hughes

  Relatives And Friends, People, Humanity

  Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”

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• Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Reading, Insufficiency

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 2010.

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• Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vices, Revolution, Courageous

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.311, e-artnow

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• We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

  Eric Hoffer

  Needs, Cures, Trouble Maker

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• In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Animal, Reality

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Mistake, Gun, Rights

  "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

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• People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Peace, Government

  TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan, August 31, 1959.

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• We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Years, Justice, Alternatives

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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• If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Peace, Responsibility, Racism

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• Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Independent, Rights, America

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of conscience”

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• In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world-we change ourselves!

  Jules Dervaes

  Essentials, World, Growing

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• But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Soul, Ears

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• Eugenie, my sweet, your outraged protests are adorable, but they only continue to slow us down. If you want me to help you, then let me. If you don't, then take me to one of those places where human women wear revealing clothing and quickly lose their virtue through alcohol.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Adorable, Alcohol

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.281, Zebra Books

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• There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Philosophy, Hands

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

  Ron Paul

  Government, America, Long

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• The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hands, Weapons, Evening

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. December 5, 1955.

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