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Protesting is fundamentally submissive. -- Paul Watson
Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. -- Paul Watson
Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late. -- Nhat Hanh
Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace. -- Bryant McGill
I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines. -- Chico Hamilton
War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck - The inward scre -- Robert Graves
There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting. -- Tracy Chapman
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends. -- Anna Deavere Smith
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. -- Martin Sheen
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing. -- Sarah Palin
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
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. -- Sam Brownback
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. -- Siegfried Sassoon
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq. -- Ernest Istook
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. -- Desiderius Erasmus
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. -- Marilyn Monroe
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. -- John Stossel
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved. -- Edi Rama
I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to. -- Charlie Trotter
Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners. -- Jessica Valenti
Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side. -- Miroslav Volf
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!' -- Craig Reucassel
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. -- Michael Moore
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed. -- Terry Eagleton
After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested. -- James Hansen
I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside. -- Gil Scott-Heron
I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't the same as English punk. It wasn't a working-class movement that was protesting the conditions under which this class had to work. I don't think American punk ever died. -- Greg Graffin
Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important. -- Wyclef Jean
I'm always happy when I'm protesting. -- Richard Stallman
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. -- Ben Jonson
My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. -- Solomon Northup
I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting. -- Nahum Goldmann
They're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes. -- Rush Limbaugh
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men. -- Abraham Lincoln
Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers, -- Oliver Stone
who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism -- Allen Ginsberg
At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting. -- Billy Corgan
If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against. -- Rollo May
I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. -- David Levithan
I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice. -- Howard Zinn
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself. -- Ram Dass
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. -- Thomas Carlyle
Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law. -- Gerald Celente
Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match. -- Judith Orloff
People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk. -- Rudy Giuliani
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting. -- Karen Bass
People have it so good in America that they get bored very easily. And when people get bored they start protesting things. -- Janet Reno
I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote. -- Darryl Pinckney
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? -- David Letterman
As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights. -- Kevin DeYoung
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. -- Louis Kronenberger
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess. -- Diana Trilling
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. -- David Letterman
People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed. -- Marge Piercy
I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me. -- Rob Reiner
In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you. -- Auliq Ice
As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it. -- Robert Casey
Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents... -- H. G. Wells
Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again. -- Michael Wadleigh
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. -- Barack Obama
They [President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton] have said that everybody should root for the success of President-Elect [Donald] Trump, but what about - those are the protesters protesting President-Elect Trump. -- George Stephanopoulos
I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord. -- Paul Crouch
With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk. -- Sarah Waters
Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not. -- Abraham Lincoln
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire. -- Anna Godbersen
We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime. -- Ian MacKaye
The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses. -- Romola Garai
No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts. -- Eddie Vedder
I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to. -- Charlie Trotter
I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to." -- Charlie Trotter

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