Quotes About Peaceful Protest

#1. Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

Nina Easton

#2. An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

Benjamin Crump

#3. Technology is the penultimate chameleon, taking on the characteristics of its handler. In some hands technology is a tool of treachery, while in others it morphs into a peaceful protest. In still others, it represents the bleeding edge of freedom.

Brock N. Meeks

#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. Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

Richie Havens

#6. There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

Russ Feingold

#7. 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

#8. The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

Pete Carril

#9. You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

Anna Deavere Smith

#10. Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.

Christopher John Farley

#11. Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

Gunter Grass

#12. Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.

George Carlin

#13. If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

Hulk Hogan

#14. In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

John McCain

#15. I am a Libra so I have to balance things.

Mark Viduka

#16. There is no truth. Only perspectives.

Michelle Hodkin

#17. But this anti-war protest, is far from a success; it is just a placebo for the people. These peacemakers feel so satisfied, gratified; gay-gallant-and-gleeful. But they do not achieve anything acceptable, perceptible; or peaceful.

Joss Sheldon

#18. When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

#19. One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

Bob Schaffer

#20. Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

Naomi Wolf

#21. The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others ... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

Richard P. Feynman

#22. I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

Drake

#23. There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

Kathleen Hanna

#24. The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

Marc Bloch

#25. I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

Robert Plant