Protest Quotes

Protest Quote of the day

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

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

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

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

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

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

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

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

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

All literature is protest.

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place

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

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

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

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.