Protest Quotes - Page 4

• Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

  Joe Rogan

  Hurt, Hunger Strike, Careers

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• You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.

  Craig Ferguson

  Home, Funny Work, Guy

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• We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

  Joe Hockey

  Free Education, Support, Campaigns

  "Joe Hockey video shows treasurer once protested against student fees". www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

  John Knowles

  Sarcasm, Weak

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• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Eye, Thinking, World

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• We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

  Graham Nash

  Anniversary, Song, Emotional

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• A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Choices, Animal Rights, Vegetarian

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• As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, People, Moments

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears.

  Witold Walczak

  Government, Voice, Buttons

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• My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mother, Men, Effort

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• Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

  Lillian Smith

  Men, Years, Giving

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• I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

  Nina Simone

  Thinking, America, Important

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• For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Song, Prayer, Legs

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• To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Evil, Rejection

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• I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

  Chico Hamilton

  Mean, Hell

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• Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Progress, Moral, Humans

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.30, Routledge

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• After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

  Noam Chomsky

  Firsts, October, Senators

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.466, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.

  Susan Schneider

  Song, Self, Singing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.

  Norman Doidge

  Love Is, Brain, Essentials

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.116, Penguin

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• As his campaign marches toward Cleveland, [Donald] Trump drawing more protests, too. Check out this scene from Arizona yesterday. The road to a Trump rally blocked. And there are new questions overnight about how Trump and his supporters are dealing with those protests.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Drawing, Yesterday, Arizona

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mean, Fate, Echoes

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• Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.

  Ann Coulter

  Rights, Movement, Window

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• It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character.

  James Terry White

  Struggle, Character, Simple

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