Quotes About Protest Movements

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

Gus O'Donnell

#2. From the theft of confidential cables to 21st-century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.

Hillary Clinton

#3. (why exactly twenty-somethings are considered so vital to protest movements, I never figured out, seeing as how they never vote and have no money)

Nell Zink

#4. There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

Alan Moore

#5. History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

Hugh Evans

#6. I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.

Michael Douglas

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

Eileen Granfors

#8. If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.

Robin Trower

#9. He had been the person who took. He'd been the one who was taken. And he'd been the one left behind. Next he would find out what it was like to be all three at once.

Adam Johnson

#10. It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Peter Redgrove

#11. It takes time to recover from having run somewhere. But sometimes one just wants to run. Anywhere.

Sarah Manguso

#12. A computer model which manipulated data about itself and its "surroundings" in essentially the same way as an organic brain would have to possess essentially the same mental states. "Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.

Greg Egan

#13. Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

Laozi

#14. I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

Danielle Steel

#15. In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

Gordon Bethune

#16. Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

Kumari Jayawardena