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Protest Quotes & Sayings

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I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. — Paul Watson

Protest poetry
could there be consensus poetry? — William Stafford

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. — Emma Goldman

It's such an ugly time, beauty is the real protest. — Robert Haas

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse. — Pol Pot

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. — Bertrand Russell

The world turns, that's all. You can hold on and turn with it, or stand up to protest and be spun right off. — Stephen King

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself. — Ram Dass

A protest song is a song
that's so specific that you
cannot mistake it for bullshit — Phil Ochs

When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now. — Germaine Greer

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau

I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities. — Banksy

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

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere) — Billie Joe Armstrong

I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend. — Sarah J. Maas

You can protest, you can protest peacefully, but keep things civil. — Tim Soutphommasane

Apparently you don't have to understand physics to protest. — John Scalzi

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust. — Zendaya

You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can. — Clint Black

Originality is the best form of rebellion. — Mike Sasso

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak. — John Knowles

If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I've said. Farewell, hello, farewell, hello. — Kurt Vonnegut

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more. — Ulrike Marie Meinhof

To sin by silnce when they should protest makes cowards of men (and women)... — Abe Lincoln

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin. — Garry Kasparov

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. — Jimmy Cliff

She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest — Susanna Clarke

I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest. — Ardal O'Hanlon

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. — Robert Mugabe

You dance the troika in the opening of my veins and I only protest with a murmur. — Malak El Halabi

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue. — Lotte Lehmann

She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered. — Ally Carter

If we continuously protest and complain about our life then we actually create barriers in the manifestation process and the natural flow of life. — Hina Hashmi

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. — Thurgood Marshall

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. — Joan Baez

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

Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life — Mario Vargas-Llosa

I never intended to become a zombie huntress; I had only intended to protest prom, high school's last bastion of patriarchal society. — G.G. Silverman

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents. — C.V. Wedgwood

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so. — Michael Leunig

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better. — Jane Bowles

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective. — Naomi Wolf

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. — George Colman The Elder

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest. — Charles Emmerson

Women could protest from now till piss flowed uphill, but the truth was, there wasn't one didn't secretly love a killer. And — Thomas Pynchon

thinking of us, our struggles and pain, grieves in me a song more dismal than the sparrows' protest to the morning rain — John J. Geddes

In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass? — Adolf Hitler

In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you. — Auliq Ice

Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else. — Dean Koontz

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest. — Trent Lott

That what each of us calls our necessary expenses will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary. — George S. Clason

I detect the activist returning with a vengence. — E.A. Bucchianeri

There must be engagement: there must be protest. — B.W. Powe

When he started to renew his protest, she held up a hand. What are you more afraid of: them or me with low blood sugar? — Laini Taylor

I'm going to kiss you as long and as often as I like, and you're not to utter a word of protest. — Lisa Kleypas

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things. — Vladimir Putin

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. — Robert Indiana

Stop praying for salvation when it is clear,
You are the saviours that we need around here. — Harry Whitewolf

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. — Tariq Ali

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn

Don't go to the protest. Go out and get laid. Unless you're going to the protest to get laid. — David Burr Gerrard

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

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. — Albert Einstein

Its easy to protest, even a child protests...the hardest part is understanding the 'why and what to protest. — Victor Truth

You'd better eat that," she says.
"I'm taking it easy on my stomach," I protest. "Come on. It just had a knife in it. — Kendare Blake

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history. — Nina Easton

Honor? What do you care about honor? Honor gets people killed!' 'At least they die for something,' I say, and he doesn't protest further. — Ned Vizzini

What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it? — Sontag, Susan

I was - the last protest I was at was in Genoa, where I got tear gassed, and I hate tear gas, and I hate being in crowds. — Noreena Hertz

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done! — Tim Berners-Lee

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. — Elie Wiesel

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest. — Bob Gibson

I'm like a one-woman protest machine. — Lydia Lunch

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed ... This is a different world. — Gus O'Donnell

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive. — Cy Twombly

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war. — Joan Baez

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If — Timothy Snyder

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

The greenhouse effect I am knowing;
To protest right now I am going,
But oh my gee whiz,
I'm going that is,
If only it ever stops snowing. — Alan Cook

Death will be my supreme protest against a world of tears and blood. — Albert Camus

It is better to protest than to accept injustice. — Rosa Parks

My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt. — Mason Cooley

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest. — Kurt Vonnegut

Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest. — Stephen Kinzer

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Your politics are so far right,
They're wrong. — Harry Whitewolf

I hit send and shut my phone off before it can protest. The world doesn't end. — J.C. Lillis

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India. — Aly Khan

Justice has a right to protest against injustice. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul. — Edward Burne-Jones

A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE! — Kate Fox

The moment comes when protest is not enough; reason must give way to action, and force ensure what thought has conceived. — Victor Hugo

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach. — Michael Bloomberg

In the name of God and humanity I protest! — John Bell Hood

When people believe that the local government and economy serve their needs. There is little desire to protest. — Auliq Ice