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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.
One thing that is great about India is the freedom to speak and the spaces available in our democracy to protest which doesn't exist in many places in the world.
The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.
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 right don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career. The left has turned that into a bought-and-paid-for, rent-a-mob type activity.
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.
I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend.
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.
If players want to protest, let them do it on their own time and on their own dime.
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.
[The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it`s going to go up a little bit higher.
Why does the left protest and the right doesn't? The left is a hate group.
We will continue our protest with our course on free elections.
One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.
There are many avenues to peacefully protest, but those rights don't extend to illegal actions, breaching security perimeters, and threatening police officers.
It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.
Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.
In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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.
"No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.
I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.
Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy.
From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.
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.
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.
Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .
The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.
A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
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.
It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.
If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?
We run into police brutality often and it's always a problem that we always have to protest and speak out.
We fully support the right of citizens to peacefully protest and are committed to protecting that right.
Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.
The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.
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.
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
BSP does not believe in organizing violent protest. It's a disciplined party and follows democratic process to oppose anti-people policies of government.
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.