Quotes about Dissent

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

Heresy is the foe of countenance

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same.

For in our own day we see many who are stupid enough to be so overcome by the mere title of "the church," that they take sides with the pope, and would be damned forever rather than raise a finger against his authority.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.