Protest Quotes

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

[The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it's going to go up a little bit higher.

Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

I don't really know a lot about these 'anti-protest' laws. I'm only vaguely aware of them, but I don't have enough detailed knowledge about them to comment.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

the mute protest in your own bones

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

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.

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.

Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you.

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

There is a direct line between the communications work I did to protest tuition increases at my school and what I do today. Plus it had one other benefit...it got me kicked out of college!

What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

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

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

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.

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

The Establishment is always against protest.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?