Quotes About Protest

#1. For those who protest that Mr. Obama will soon be out of office and irrelevant, read on and learn how his legacy of conscious control over every aspect of our lives will continue to function for generations to come. On

Alexandra York

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

Chico Hamilton

#3. Never mind. Bye, Carmen. Don't go out and get radical or anything.
THE PINATA-MAKER'S DAUGHTER

Eileen Granfors

#4. Its easy to protest, even a child protests...the hardest part is understanding the 'why and what to protest.

Victor Truth

#5. History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

Timothy Snyder

#6. To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

Thurgood Marshall

#7. Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

Adolf Hitler

#8. I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.

Olivia Sudjic

#9. In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?

Adolf Hitler

#10. Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."

Boyd K. Packer

#11. He gazed into her eyes. "I was never any good at saying no to you." He cupped her face and put his forehead to hers. "I was going to protest, and then give in." Aribelle smiled. "I hope you never get good at saying no to me.

Victorine E. Lieske

#12. Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one's body and a voice to protest with.

Plato

#13. One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

Trent Lott

#14. When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

Mo Rocca

#15. And yet, protest it if we will,
Some corner of the mind retains
The medieval man, who still
Keeps watch upon those starry skeins
And drives us out of doors at night
To gaze at anagrams of light.

Adrienne Rich

#16. I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

John F. Kerry

#17. It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

Fulton J. Sheen

#18. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Colin Wilson

#19. There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#20. When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.

Denzel Washington

#21. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

Thom Yorke

#23. Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

John Edward Redmond

#24. I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

Johnny Carson

#25. I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.

Alex Steffen

#26. There's much protest, but it falls on deaf ears.

David Levithan

#27. Where have all the flowers gone

Marlene Dietrich

#28. The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

Walter Ulbricht

#29. In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

I.L. Peretz

#30. If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

Robert Orben

#31. What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#32. The more you oppress
the more they distress
and the more they protest
the more you detest.

Aram Seriteratai

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

Auliq Ice

#34. 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

#35. You'd better eat that," she says.
"I'm taking it easy on my stomach," I protest. "Come on. It just had a knife in it.

Kendare Blake

#36. Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If

Timothy Snyder

#37. Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.

Thomas Bastard

#38. So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

Cal Thomas

#39. Whenever I'm out late she makes a sandwich for my school lunch. I always protest and tell her not to, saying I'll make my own when I get home. But she likes it. She says it reminds her of when I was younger and needed her.

Jay Asher

#40. The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

Alfred Kazin

#41. I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

Nelson Mandela

#42. If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#43. I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with each other for political power in their own culture. The basis for this behavior is a desire for notoriety.

Truman Capote

#44. What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

Jonathan Sacks

#45. 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

#46. These include coats, suits, jackets, skirts, and dresses. My standard is this: hang any clothes that look like they would be happier hung up, such as those made with soft materials that flutter in the breeze or highly tailored cuts, which protest at being folded. These we should hang willingly.

Marie Kondo

#47. There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Henry James

#48. worn out desk chair squeaked in protest as he leaned back. "Have your folks ever taken you to see a physician for your

Matthew Keith

#49. Justice has a right to protest against injustice.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#50. Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

Lorraine Hansberry

#51. Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.

Charles Dickens

#52. The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

Charles Emmerson

#53. It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Abraham Lincoln

#54. I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

Andrew Jackson

#55. Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him - but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them.

Gordon Dahlquist

#56. They do sometimes protest...At these times, she sounds authoritative. But she has no authority.

Lydia Davis

#57. 'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.

Annalee Newitz

#58. It's such an ugly time, beauty is the real protest.

Robert Haas

#59. You know, Dar, there's no problem so big that an adequate supply of explosives can't cure it. There was that. But people tended to protest being blown up. Bunch of krikken weirdos. He

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#60. Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

Michael Franti

#61. Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Nelson Mandela

#62. Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.

Elizabeth F. Loftus

#63. 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

#64. Acceptance. That, he had learned in Russia many years ago, was the secret of survival ... Accept it. Wait. Let the system exhaust itself. Protest will only raise your blood pressure.

Robert Harris

#65. Don't go to the protest. Go out and get laid. Unless you're going to the protest to get laid.

David Burr Gerrard

#66. I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#67. Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Charles Spurgeon

#68. It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

Craig Bruce

#69. When he started to renew his protest, she held up a hand. What are you more afraid of: them or me with low blood sugar?

Laini Taylor

#70. 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

#71. A protest song is a song
that's so specific that you
cannot mistake it for bullshit

Phil Ochs

#72. As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

John Knowles

#73. Some people believe that if they yell and scream, others will get the point of just how serious they are. For me, all I get is the point of just how out of control that someone is.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#74. The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Edward Burne-Jones

#75. The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Emma Goldman

#76. Sometimes I feel as if I've lived about five lifetimes...all fictionalized in my five books.

Laurel-Rain Snow

#77. Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Hilaire Belloc

#78. I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

Eugene Chadbourne

#79. The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Emile M. Cioran

#80. My surname for a mask to pretend!
I have no stand to protest,
but I will find it (in the poem 'Tatiana Naturova at Time's End' in the collection 'The Green Divorce')

Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis

#81. There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change. In

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#83. Simon," I say, and swallow again, "you're being idiotic."
"Because I like this better than fighting?"
"There is no 'this'!" I protest.
"You slept in my arms," he says.
"Fitfully.

Rainbow Rowell

#84. 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

#85. She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.

Ally Carter

#86. I got body snatched by an alien." McClane grumbled a protest. "A sentient alien armor and weapons system," Riley clarified. "Very sophisticated. Very unique. Very much a smartass. His name's McClane

J. Fally

#87. At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

Cesare Pavese

#88. The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed ... This is a different world.

Gus O'Donnell

#89. Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

Claude Monet

#90. The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

Claude Monet

#91. I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.

Richard Littlejohn

#92. Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.

Alfred Kazin

#93. Just because your muscles start to protest, doesn't mean you have to listen.

Dianne Holum

#94. What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?

Sontag, Susan

#95. Apparently you don't have to understand physics to protest.

John Scalzi

#96. you've no idea of the agony of having your characters taken and made to say things that they never would have said, and do things that they never would have done. And if you protest, all they say is that it's 'good theatre.

Agatha Christie

#97. It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

Billy Graham

#98. In Chicago some anti-Mitt Romney protesters told reporters they're being paid to protest. They said they're being paid by Democrats to stand outside and chant anti-Romney slogans. Well, who says President Obama isn't creating any new jobs?

Jay Leno

#99. God. I haven't been very good.
The metal whined in protest.
I could have tried harder. I could've been a better person. I stand before you now as I am. I make no excuses.
The beams gave, bending.
Please, have mercy on me,

Ilona Andrews

#100. Evil is a cluster of well orchestrated blind spots. When it manifests itself to excess, we protest and want the blind spots that both produce it and conceal it back, and fast.

John Thomas Allen