Quotes About Protesting Too Much

#1. Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it.

Bennett Madison

#2. I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.

Darryl Pinckney

#3. There's a very thin line between rightfully protesting, and protesting so much that it becomes clear you're trying to hide something.

Aimee Carter

#4. There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.

John Stossel

#5. It is more gratifying to bask in praise for courageously protesting the abuses of official enemies: a fine activity, but not the priority of a value-oriented intellectual who takes the responsibilities of that stance seriously.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.

Nelson Mandela

#7. Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

Paul Watson

#8. All raw, uncooked, protesting."
(on Aldous Huxley)

Virginia Woolf

#9. I sat in a spluttering, bleeding heap protesting that I was fine and all I needed was a quiet corner to go and die in and everything would be all right.

Douglas Adams

#10. The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting
Against those who were drowning them in the ocean.
The horses sank to the bottom, neighing, neighing.
Until they had all gone down.
That is all. Nevertheless, I pity them,
Those bay horses, that never saw land again.

Boris Slutsky

#11. The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.

Romola Garai

#12. A rugged but sensitive but tough but loving but horny but smart hero having his way with a protesting but willing but struggling but yielding tempestuous female.

Neal Stephenson

#13. I had to wonder why these people weren't protesting at their congressional offices or in Washington. Protesting the people who were ordered to protect them - let's just say it put a bad taste in my mouth.

Chris Kyle

#14. After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested.

James Hansen

#15. The people protesting to save these woods are right - these trees are almost untouched. His voice was different somehow. It was exactly the sound in his voice that I heard at the funeral of my great-uncle.

Ned Hayes

#16. Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. It was V-day and I was stuck at home while the guy I was dating was at an Anti-Valentine's Day party. How wrong was that? It was one thing to be totally alone on V-day, but another to want to be with someone who would rather spend the evening protesting love instead of making it.

Kate Madison

#18. At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

Billy Corgan

#19. Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#20. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#21. You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Karen Bass

#22. I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

Sarah Palin

#23. Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.

Gerald Celente

#24. Confidence is not posting endless selfies, or repeatedly protesting how happy or in love we are, it's a subtle yet noticeable sheen that emanates from our being - our eyes, our words, our body language.

Sam Owen

#25. The ship groans, moans, bangs, and clangs, miserably protesting this turn of events. 'I

Robert Jackson Bennett

#26. I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

Gil Scott-Heron

#27. They're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.

Rush Limbaugh

#28. In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.

James E. Faust

#29. 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

#30. I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

Howard Zinn

#31. At the time, Alcatraz had been taken over by Native Americans who were protesting against a long series of broken treaties, genocidal policies, and racist exploitation.

Assata Shakur

#32. I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.

Chico Hamilton

#33. There's 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that.

Shane Koyczan

#34. There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

Tracy Chapman

#35. I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty?

David Letterman

#36. As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

Kevin DeYoung