Quotes of Protest - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. It is easier to admire hard work if you don't do it. ”

- Unknown

“ The lady doth protest too much, methinks. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. ”

- Jane Austen

“ A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ”

- Minna Thomas Antrim

“ If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Those who object to wit are envious of it. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ We are here to protest Britain's role in sending us to the U.N. Security Council. We must defend our right to nuclear technology. ”

- Mohammad Ali

“ Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. - Daniel Webster. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible. ”

- Alan Dean Foster

“ I have always liked a challenge. ”

- Damon Hill

“ For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. ”

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“ The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional rights. This judge's ruling is wonderful. ”

- James Lafferty

“ If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against. ”

- Rollo May

“ In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest. ”

- Bob Gibson

“ I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent. ”

- Charles Eliot Norton

“ Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs — social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society… ”

- Benjamin Netanyahu

“ A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ This is not Pittsburgh, this is not Kansas City, this is not Minnesota,... This is Boston right here. We're in first place. It doesn't matter what's going on. You just got to kick it right now. You can't be walking along backwards. You can't be panicking. ”

- David Ortiz

“ Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act. ”

- Talmud

“ Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. ”

- Nigel Dennis

“ Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ”

- Lewis Mumford
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