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“As far as sometimes being involved with different demonstrations, I did an anti-war protest in San Fran in January, and I'm standing there, amongst all these people, and it's this great thing to see people being active and actually standing up for what they believe in and still letting the government know that there are people who will still sacrifice a portion of their day to stand up for what they care about, but I'm just thinking to myself, "God, man, these protests have been going on throughout I-don't-even-know-how-many years, and here we are again."”

People Thinking Men Believe Different Sometimes Care Sacrifice Great Things Protest January

Author:Mr. Lif

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.”

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Author:Michelle Malkin

“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.”

Mean Doe Names Powerful Responsibility Rich Cost Universal Empowering Protest Globalization Enriching Freedom And Responsibility

Author:Nelson Mandela

“The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.”

Country Lasts America Political Wealth Principles Streets Wall Becoming Prosperity Protest Gaps Occupy Wall Street

Author:Jon Meacham

“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”

Stars Loss Inspiring Rights Involved Minorities Protest Belonging Lost Friendship Twinkling

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“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.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.”

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Author:Robert Mugabe

“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.”

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Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY

Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY

“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.”

May Song Forget Four Happened Students Emotional Spots Peaceful Protest Gave Up Anniversary Peaceful Protest

Author:Graham Nash

“There is a legend. And to protest is daft.”

Protest Legends Daft

Author:Peter O'Toole

“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”

Ugly Protest

Author:Phil Ochs

“We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.”

Thinking World Littles Bigs Eye Used Term Millions Huge Dollars Affair Billions Dramatic Protest Demonstration Disobedience Civil Disobedience Twinkling

Author:A. Philip Randolph

“Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.”

Littles Justice Injustice Protest Shouting

Author:John Berger

“Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.”

Hurt Careers Hunger Strikes Comedian Protest Arrested Outspoken Hunger Strike

Author:Joe Rogan

“When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.”

Humans Individual Human Beings Society Dignity Human Rights Acknowledge Protest Refusal Disobedience Civil Disobedience Acknowledge You

Author:Bayard Rustin

“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.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.”

Thinking Men Want Years Kind Bigs Lines Dying Fronts Planets Wind Research Organization Clean Environmental Cancer Protest Bothered Hippie Cancer Research

Author:Jello Biafra

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

“In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.”

States Social Security Investment Cards Protest Burned Social Security Conferences New Orleans Pension

Author:Mark Skousen

“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.”

Men Giving Years Hard Found Born Strange Birth Forgiving Fruit Ancient Protest Hard Things Through The Years Matriarchs

Author:Lillian Smith

“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.”

People Thinking Care Together Community Issues Models Protest Engagement Ongoing Civics Get Together Advocacy

Author:Alex Steffen

“It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.”

Fun Empty Protest Stomach Empty Stomach

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

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Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“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.”

People Wells Bigs Passion Christ Office Boxes Hated Upset Protest Box Office Passion Of The Christ

Author:Denzel Washington

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”

Sometimes Reason Moments Faith Lost Anger Protest Holocaust Faith In God Lost Faith

Author:Elie Wiesel

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”

“I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion.”

People Wells Christian Rights Military Gay Journalist Protest Funeral Gay Rights Atlanta Bombers

Author:Juan Williams

“Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.”

Ifs Peaceful Protest Usual Disruptive Peaceful Protest

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.”

Should Violence Citizens Destruction Property Protest March Site

Author:Naomi Wolf

“In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of "overpermiticisation" - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.”

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Author:Naomi Wolf

“I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.”

People War Rights Deny Protest Vietnam Vietnam War

Author:John Wooden

“Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.”

People Thinking World Said Real Sometimes Faces Literature Left Please Depression Obligation Protest Comes And Goes Alright

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.”

Has Beens Cases Records Protest Usual Shallow Absorbing

Author:Thom Yorke

“Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.”

Heart Might Streets Warm Oil Protest Recessions Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Barrels

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.”

People Should Trying Views Silence Moral Issues Speech Majors Arguing Bitter Protest Disagree Free Speech Pills Moral Issues

Author:Julian Baggini

“Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.”

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Author:Julian Baggini

“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt.”

“Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.”

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Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And vows were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,-- Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking.”

Ifs Years Littles Said Done Moving Lying Dies Forget Half Break Struggle Forever Months Dear My Favorite Seeking Protest Idle Vow Forget You Half A Year

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.”

“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.”

Source: Public Power in the Age of Empire

“once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.”

Action Water Sea Sweet Rivers Protest Salt Once Upon A Time

Author:Aesop

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.”

Hard Teeth Protest Juicy Pears

Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”

Whole Spiritual Acting Silence Wise Demand Occasions Telling The Truth Protest Cowardice Dissent Speaking Out Whole Truth

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.”

Source: I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr

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