Quotes about Protest

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the populace wages battle against, the people. Beggars

With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world.

It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

'Sizwe' is the beginning of protest theatre; 'Nothing But The Truth' is post-apartheid South Africa.

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.