Top 201 Protesting Quotes & Sayings

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

Protesting against sexism doesn't mean saying that all men are actively sexist.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University of Hawaii.

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty?

I have been arrested several times protesting.

Protesting is a fundamental aspect of our democracy, and I will always encourage this course of action, but it can be intimidating.

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

There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.

We been in the streets protesting for years about police brutality.

Don't blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.

Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.

You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

We won't stop protesting. It's the engine that moves society forward.

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

Some people see protesting as a bit of a dirty thing, and certainly the idea of getting arrested was not on people's radar.

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what I’m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work I’ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I don’t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

Some of the yellow cards I get are for tactical fouls, which is fair enough, but I don't like the others - the ones for protesting.

I don't like country music, so I won't buy a ticket. That doesn't mean I should be outside protesting.

They're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.

When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.

I do not understand why Muslims are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act. CAA is not for the Muslims who were born here.

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

In Maidan Square right now, you see thousands of Ukrainians protesting the Russian occupation of Crimea. So this is a Russian protest by Ukrainians who want their sovereignty. They want their freedom and they're protesting what Russia did in Crimea.

One of the most important things in any leader or in any successful approach is to focus on connecting with people and really listening to them. We shouldn't just be saying, oh yes, the people are protesting. We need to ask them why they are protesting and try and figure out if there is something we can do to bring them in and respond to those concerns. That's not populism - that's being thoughtfully open to the fact that our citizens are allowed to have, and are even justified in having, very real concerns and questions for the people responsible for serving them.

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

I mean, hunger strike is almost a ritual in a Russian prison colony. It actually has been going back to Soviet times. It's a way of protesting.

I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

My faith is ultimately what led me to start protesting and it's what continues to drive me.

I think it's important to realize that the players who are protesting aren't protesting the anthem. They're not protesting the flag. People kind of move the goalposts on them and try to tell them what they're protesting. But as they keep saying, that's not what they're protesting.

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

I've just always done what I've felt is best, according to what the Bible tells me. That's why I started protesting, and that's what I continue to do every day.