Best 182 quotes in «protest quotes» category

Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from war? And businesses, most of them except military and oil ones, most of them have a vested interest in peace and prosperity. You cannot sell a house to a war refugee living in a tent, can you? Really hard tto sell an iPhone to a shattered victim. Businesses and corporatoons run this country. So yuou have to approach them with logic. Emotional appeals to the hippies of this world will not change minds. Stick to logic. - Shane Gibson, candidate for Governor, THE PLATOS ASCENSION BRIEF.

Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don’t recall just who gave me the quote. I placed it next to my voting card and have carried it ever since. The quote came from Elie Wiesel’s book One Generation After. The quote was entitled “Why I Protest.” Author Elie Wiesel tells the story of the one righteous man of Sodom, who walked the streets protesting against the injustice of this city. People made fun of him, derided him. Finally, a young person asked: “Why do you continue your protest against evil; can’t you see no one is paying attention to you?” He answered, “I’ll tell you why I continue. In the beginning, I thought I would change people. Today, I know I cannot. Yet, if I continue my protest, at least I will prevent others from changing me.” I’m not that pessimistic that we can’t change people’s beliefs or that people will not respond to the message of liberty and peace. But we must always be on guard not to let others change us once we gain the confidence that we are on the right track in the search for truth.

You can't love me.' 'Don't be bossy. I can do what the hell I like.

You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels." "Its own grave-diggers," he said. "But these are not the grave-diggers. This is the free market itself. These people are a fantasy generated by the market. They don't exist outside the market. There is nowhere they can go to be on the outside. There is no outside." The camera tracked a cop chasing a young man through the crowd, an image that seemed to exist at some drifting distance from the moment. "The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the markets of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

Your politics are so far right, They're wrong.

By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war.

American election was really personal for Putin because he believed that Clinton is a personal enemy. He genuinely believed she was behind the Moscow protests in 2012, 2011.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

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

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.

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

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.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.

My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

The overwhelming female protest to the presidential election perhaps is an accurate indicator of how essential it is to understand women, the issues they face, and the need to address women's rights, not just nationally, but globally.

The truest protest is beauty.

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.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

Anger is a gift. Remember that." She stood. "You gotta grasp onto it, hold it tight and use it as ammunition. You use that anger to get things done instead of just stewing in it.

What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you.

And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.