Public Protest Quotes

#1. Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.

Rachel Corrie

#2. My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

Joan Baez

#3. I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#4. Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Barack Obama

#5. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

Wendell Berry

#6. 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

#7. I've seen people, where if they have to wait around the set for three hours, and they call you at the wrong time, and they're not ready for you, some people don't like that.

Paul Dano

#8. The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

J. William Fulbright

#9. when you want something in life you need a reason for wanting it, or else you'll give up when it gets too hard.

Michele G. Miller

#10. Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

James Hillman

#11. Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

Kiana Tom

#12. I lose part of myself that day and I don't want to lose even more.

Miranda Kenneally

#13. Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

Lyn Gardner

#14. Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

Ai Weiwei

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#16. Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

William S. Burroughs

#17. I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

J.G. Ballard

#18. Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?

Rick Riordan

#19. Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Come. I was on my way to the park; I know a quiet spot where you can sit down."
"In public? With a servant?" I protest as he starts to draw me down the street.
"What is the point of being the duke's heir if I can't cause a scandal now and then?

Rosamund Hodge

#21. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

Jim Carrey

#22. I don't even understand life right now. What is going on?

Jamie McGuire