Top 228 Protests Quotes & Sayings

Protests [against Donald Trump] four nights running.Thousands marching across the country.

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

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.

I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.

I support peaceful protests and the rule of law, and denounce all acts of violence.

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.

Protests are part of our democracy.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Do not underestimate the intelligence of our farmers. They are not part of the protests staged by the Congress, which is resorting to gimmicks such as burning tractors.

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.

Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Non-violent protests are signs of a healthy democracy, not an ailing one.

Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.

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

It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do so. The main difference between the protests of 2011-2012 and these protests today is that they didn't have permits. These were - the people who were coming out into the streets were very young people, for the most part, who knew that they were all risking arrest. It's an extraordinary event.

Poverty leads to protests.

I do not lead the Hong Kong protests, because no one person leads the protests.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

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

I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.

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

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

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.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.

During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.

If people go out and start protests for everything, then entire Tamil Nadu will become a grave yard!

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.

As his campaign marches toward Cleveland, [Donald] Trump drawing more protests, too. Check out this scene from Arizona yesterday. The road to a Trump rally blocked. And there are new questions overnight about how Trump and his supporters are dealing with those protests.

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

I remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.

Non-violent protests have reached a plateau. There is no other way but to get into politics to make your voice heard.

I’d been declared—over my loud and sustained protests—Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.

Protests have a value in society that I don't think you can quantify.

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.

If you look throughout American history, it has been protests and mass movements and the people rising up that has moved to this country forward.