A Quote by Max Boot

Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.

Max Boot

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Max Boot
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Born: September 12, 1969

What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of mass protests by changing laws, by making it possible to arrest anybody for protests, and by making basically a show of imprisoning not just protest leaders, and not specifically protest leaders, but activists, rank-and-file protest participants. That gets across the idea that anybody who joins a protest without being an organizer, without being a visible leader, risks arrest, and not risks just arrest, but years in a Russian jail.

Masha Gessen

People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve the situation in the country and their life.

Hassan Rouhani

Our country was founded on protest. If it was just shut up and honor your country no matter what, we'd still be flying the Union Jack. That's not what our founding fathers did. They didn't like what was going on, and they broke away and formed their own country.

Stan Van Gundy

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

Stan Van Gundy

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

George Carlin

I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It was the idea that people could talk, reason, have dialogue, discuss the issues. It wasn't founded on the idea that someone would get struck by a divine inspiration and know everything right from wrong. I mean, people who founded this country had religion, they had strong beliefs, but they believed in reason, in dialogue, in civil discourse. We can't lose that in this country. We've got to get it back.

Wesley Clark

America is very conservative. It is not a very modern country. If you look at the population, they are very serious, very nice, very good people. I love the Americans. But they are too serious to be modern. But it's not too late. With the last election, America has proven that it's a very young country at heart. We have big hopes in the world that we can again love America for what it is.

Luigi Colani

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

Margaret Thatcher

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

Hillary Clinton

Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.

Alveda King

America was founded by religious people; devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion, It's what made America different from every other country.

Rick Warren

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Jon Meacham

Through protest - especially in the 1950s and '60s - we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigration, was our way into the American Dream. Freedom in this country had always been relative to race, and it was black protest that made freedom an absolute.

Shelby Steele

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

Marshall McLuhan

America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.

Neil Postman

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