Top 894 Protest Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'
One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.
A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.
The mishandling of the migration question in Europe has certainly created a very fertile ground for protest parties.
I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.
Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.
The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.
America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.
We have the freedom of speech. We are able to hold hands in protest and stand up for what we believe in and have people hear what you have to say.
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.
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.
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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.
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
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.
For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.
Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest.
It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.
The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.
In May 2011, I drove a car in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, to protest the kingdom's ban on women driving.
Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!
If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.
You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.
If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead of protest songs.
The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.
A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.
I used to have a protest folk band in high school, and I wrote all my own songs. Then, in the B-52s, we would write collectively.
I see clothes as an art form, and also a statement: no matter how vociferously people protest that they don't care what they wear, they sort of have to.
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."
Wearing your hair natural is a positive statement about who you are. It's not a protest to somebody else. It's affirming you.
Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.
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.
I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.
The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.
I will sacrifice my comfort, my convenience, my economic position in order to stand in protest, but not impose that on everyone else.
Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.
Cabinet members may disagree and even resign in protest, but, ultimately, they must obey the order of the Commander-in-Chief.
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.
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.
Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.
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
I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even - or perhaps especially - in authoritarian regimes.
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
