Protest Quotes

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
-Abraham Lincoln

"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

"Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
-William Shakespeare

"The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth."
-Wendell Phillips

"We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley."
-Bobby Seale

"The Arab states will not be able to turn their back on the popular pressure to help the Palestinians. They will be forced to pay and support the Palestinian government because the Arab people will move in protest demonstrations in the coming few days."
-As'ad Farhat

"They can do everything that they have been doing, except they can't park there, ... You can still protest; you can still march. You can do the whole nine yards. Just don't block the traffic, and you can't park in that particular area."
-Jim Lewis

"(The protest) was anything but peaceful."
-Colin Campbell

"If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibilityourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander."
-Mary Mcleod Bethune

"I believe we should show some support but I also agree with the church's way of going about it, instead of having to go out and protest. It's just not necessary."
-Juan Ruiz

"Don't send children to school. We have not been notified when the protest will end."
-Jay Yule

"Our intent is to mount a protest drive along those streets that our president will not allow us to march on."
-Vuk Draskovic

"It's certainly perfectly understandable to feel very strongly about abortion and even to organize and protest and try to educate and change the laws or whatever, but that's a very different thing than shooting a doctor in a parking lot."
-Charles Kimball

"We passed on our protest, saying no shooting should have been done."
-Michel Lu

"We will retain the right to protest, and will ask the Security Council to investigate the truth ... about this factory."
-Omar El bashir

"Intelligent people would save their protest for the ballot."
-Georgina Beyer

"The protest has put serious pressure on the government. But it has not reached the point where the government will collapse."
-Thitinan Pongsudhirak

"Our protest is understood widely in Austria, especially in Upper Austria ? and policemen are not an exception."
-Roland Egger

"The aim of this protest is to demand clarity of our fate."
-Gastao Salsinha

"We are asking people not to go to school, or work, or shopping and instead to go out and protest against the racist and inhumane measures in this bill."
-Nativo Lopez

"I didn't want to be a f***ing pop star. I wanted to be a protest singer."
-Sinead O'connor

"I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so."
-Doris Kearns Goodwin

"Iran's withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty would be a protest against America and its allies' blackmail."
-Hossein Shariatmadari

"If anyone goes beyond the boundaries of peaceful protest and in any way causes disorder in this community, we will be completely prepared to take action."
-Alex Penelas

"We are holding a sit-in to protest the neglect shown to us by the government."
-Irshad Ahmed

"If they would give us a half-hour one day next week, we would call off the protest."
-Paul Vogel

"There's a romanticizing of the '60s, an inclination to protest, among today's youth."
-Nancy Snow