Quotes about Protest

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

If we'd lived in England or America we'd have told stories abut our lives and nobody would have called it protest theatre. But the reality of South Africa was the arrests and detentions and oppression - we could not escape that, so we decided to take it on.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

We ain't goin' study war no more.