Protest Rights Quotes

#1. I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

Dwight L. Moody

#2. 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

#3. 'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.

Adriano Giannini

#4. I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

Nina Simone

#5. I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do.

Hilary Duff

#6. I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion.

Juan Williams

#7. It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Tariq Ali

#8. On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

Elliott Abrams

#9. In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

George Clooney

#10. If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

Ed Sullivan

#11. We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood ... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.

Margaret Chase Smith

#13. Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living?

Maya Angelou

#14. I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men - even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.

K. Lee Lerner

#15. Cecile made it sound like it was no big deal. "I've been fighting for freedom all my life." But she wasn't talking about protest signs, standing up to the Man, and knowing your rights. She was talking about her life. Just her. Not the people.

Rita Williams-Garcia

#16. I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it.

Agatha Christie

#17. However, declining interest in protest activities and campus governance should not be taken as a sign that students are uncommitted to the right of free speech or the right to demonstrate on campus. In fact, they are stronger believers in these rights than many of their predecessors.

Arthur Levine

#18. When people believe that the local government and economy serve their needs. There is little desire to protest.

Auliq Ice

#19. You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

Sam Keen

#20. To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.

Carol S. Dweck

#21. People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.

Condoleezza Rice

#22. I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#23. Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?

Christina Engela

#24. Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.

Shirin Ebadi

#25. Remember that you always have the right to be treated with respect, and to protest unfair treatment or criticism. It's vital to reinforce those rights with boundaries.

Susan Forward

#26. Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

George Orwell

#27. In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you.

Auliq Ice

#28. Sally and Chava eat only raw vegetables for lunch because they are trying to lose weight. Then they split a pack of Entenmann's doughnuts for dessert.

Leila Sales

#29. 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

#30. In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat.

Bryant McGill

#31. It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.

Sergio Martinez

#32. Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

Susie Orbach

#33. I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

Michelle Obama