“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.” FeelsFirstsMayFallSpeakForceSocialChallengesBehindsRolesMovementCitizensPoliticianForgottenCongressCompromiseProtestLegislatorsSocial Movements Author:Howard Zinn
“Steven Tepper's Not Here, Not Now, Not That! offers invaluable insights into how social change and uncertainty drive protests over art. With fresh data and perspectives, Tepper makes a compelling case that cultural conflicts are largely homegrown, tied to each community's shifting demographics and values. It's an eye-opening work.” ArtEyeValuesSocialCommunityCasesPerspectiveOffersConflictInsightOpeningDataUncertaintyProtestTiedCompellingSocial ChangeShiftingDemographicsInvaluableEye OpeningHomegrown Author:Ken Paulson
“With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.” KnowsWorldWisdomEvilPoliticsSocialJusticeClassPracticeEconomyTheoryGrewConcernMethodSocial JusticeInjusticeCommunismAssumptionLiberalismProtestHardshipUnderprivilegedLexiconFalse AssumptionsNew ClassClassless Society Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.” MadeTwoStatesSocialNaturalFemaleMalesProtestProstitutionRobberyFemales And Males Author:Honore de Balzac
“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.” MayDoeCountryAblePurposeSocialEventsCircumstancesConflictEatingRemainsHungerTragicProtestSymbolicLiteralStarvationMetaphoric Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness
“I will never try to steer myself into a situation that I know might create a discussion after the race any protest immediately cuts down on my social hours after the race is over.” KnowsTryingMightSocialHoursRaceSituationCuttingDiscussionProtestSteers Author:Buddy Melges
“Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.” DoeSeemsFightingFoundSocialLaughingFashionConversationShadowBlameRationalProtestPensGossipDespiseTopics Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.” PeopleDoeOrderFightingSocialBrotherArmsAngryMiseryConclusionFighterInevitableProtestRespondingOppressorsReformersSocial SystemsUnarmedGuerrillasIgnominyGuerrilla Warfare Book:Guerrilla Warfare Source: Guerrilla Warfare