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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. -- Howard Zinn
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. -- William Shakespeare
Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry? -- William Edgar
Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest -- Diana Wynne Jones
Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things. -- Vladimir Putin
Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere) -- Billie Joe Armstrong
After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators. -- Noam Chomsky
Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more. -- Ulrike Meinhof
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -- Elie Wiesel
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. -- Robert Mugabe
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. -- Bayard Rustin
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. -- John F. Kerry
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 -- Ulrike Meinhof
Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings. -- Shawn Amos
Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century. -- Hilaire Belloc
When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. -- Mo Rocca
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. -- John Berger
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done. -- Pierre Bayle
We now have powerful technology, which allows us a voice across boundaries, which was unimaginable at the time of the Greenham Protest, a protest that pre-dates the Internet and the mobile phone. -- Beeban Kidron
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? -- Aldous Huxley
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. -- Wendell Berry
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity. -- Vida Goldstein
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. -- Nelson Mandela
Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too. -- Ulrike Meinhof
Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension. -- John Carroll
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going. -- Nina Simone
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. -- Wendell Phillips
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. -- Elie Wiesel
Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. -- Joe Rogan
There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising. -- Giorgio Armani
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. -- Vaclav Havel
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. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. -- Lillian Smith
A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. -- William Faulkner
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts. -- A. Philip Randolph
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us. -- Graham Nash
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest. -- Luther Burbank
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Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration. -- Richie Havens
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. -- Marcel Duchamp
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. -- Craig Bruce
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets. -- Tom Hodgkinson
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. -- Bill Maher
It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was a long time ago. Before it was do as you like, take to the streets. -- Michel Martelly
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest. -- Barack Obama
I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion. -- Juan Williams
I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care. -- Alex Steffen
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow. -- Julian Baggini
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. -- Hugh Evans
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest. -- Jello Biafra
Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. -- Tony Campolo
Passionately protest mediocrity. -- Danielle LaPorte
All literature is protest. -- Richard Wright
The truest protest is beauty. -- Phil Ochs
The Establishment is always against protest. -- Philip Hart
I'm like a one-woman protest machine. -- Lydia Lunch
I protest against any absolute conclusion. -- George Eliot
Art is a protest against death. -- Audrey Flack
the mute protest in your own bones -- George Orwell
Sarcasm is the protest of the weak. -- John Knowles
There must be engagement: there must be protest. -- B. W. Powe
There is nothing more American than peaceful protest. -- Russ Feingold
Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak. -- John Knowles
It is better to protest than to accept injustice. -- Rosa Parks
In the name of God and humanity I protest! -- John Bell Hood
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take. -- David Levithan
It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach. -- Michael Bloomberg
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint. -- Chinua Achebe
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause. -- Jose Narosky
I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue. -- Lotte Lehmann
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. -- Phil Ochs
It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs. -- David Sylvian
Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A person always has a chance to protest this or that. -- Jesse Ball
Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. -- Adolf Hitler
There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament. -- Lee Hsien Loong
Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find. -- Aleksandra Mir
I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value. -- Allard K. Lowenstein
You can protest, you can protest peacefully, but keep things civil. -- Tim Soutphommasane
My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul. -- Emile Zola
Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses. -- Adolf Hitler
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. -- Thurgood Marshall
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. -- George Colman the Elder
My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs. -- Shane Koyczan
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men -- Abraham Lincoln
I am a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them. -- Christopher Titus
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. -- Eric Hoffer
I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. -- Paul Watson
What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you. -- Katy Evans
Just because your muscles start to protest, doesn't mean you have to listen. -- Dianne Holum
Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge. -- Jason Calacanis
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. -- Robert Indiana
It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism) -- Woodrow Wilson
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong. -- Betty Friedan
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning. -- Joan Baez
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest. -- Lorraine Hansberry
It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest. -- Abraham Lincoln
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong. -- Frederick William Faber
I want to be a voice for my people and I will continue to protest. -- Feyisa Lilesa
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. -- William Shakespeare
I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives. -- Vivek Shraya
At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting. -- Billy Corgan
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat. -- Philip Kearny
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin. -- Garry Kasparov
The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church. -- Elaine Pagels
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. -- Ice Cube
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? -- Jude Morgan
If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against. -- Rollo May
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity. -- H. G. Wells

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