“...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.” JusticeStepsDemocracyCostOffersWideVarietyProtestPermitElitesCompelledDomainDissentCalculusPlanners Author:Noam Chomsky
“The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.” MenStillsImportantEasyStruggleGreaterRightsAchieveDangerCostClaimsCommittedPeacefulProtestMarchHope For The FutureTurbulence Book:RFK: collected speeches Source: RFK: collected speeches
“The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.” WarAmericaGeniusCostMachinesEndlessInvisibleProtestVietnamVietnam WarCost Of WarEndless War Author:Glenn Greenwald
“I did in fact take a couple of classes at my local college here in NYC. But I did it unwillingly and without enthusiasm. That is until a protest broke out in the streets around campus against rising tuition costs.” FactsClassStreetsCollegeCoupleCostLocalsEnthusiasmBrokeRisingProtestCampusNycTuition Author:Lewis Schiff
“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.” MeanDoeNamesPowerfulResponsibilityRichCostUniversalEmpoweringProtestGlobalizationEnrichingFreedom And Responsibility Author:Nelson Mandela