Protest Quotes
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
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things. - Henry James
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me. - Oliver Goldsmith
She was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them. - Rebecca West
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. - William Shakespeare
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. - Abraham Lincoln
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery. - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act. - The Talmud
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
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
When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.-Denzel Washington
Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.-Karl Liebknecht
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.-Abu Bakar Bashir
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.-Paul Kantner
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.-Philip Kearny
If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.-Mark Lloyd
In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.-Bob Gibson
In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.-Martha Smith
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.-Phil Ochs
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.-Margaret Fuller
It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information.-Sherman Austin
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.-Craig Bruce
It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.-Michael Bloomberg
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.-Alexander Herzen
Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.-Jose Saramago
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
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.-Ellen Wilkinson
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.-Bob Schaffer
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.-William O. Douglas
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
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.-Camille Paglia
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.-William Lyon Mackenzie King
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.-John Desmond Bernal
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.-Bob Filner