Protest Quotes (62 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Alexander Herzen
„Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.“
Picture of quotation author Rose Schneiderman
„But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.“
Picture of quotation author Eugene Chadbourne
„I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.“
Picture of quotation author Michael Bloomberg
„It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.“
Picture of quotation author Robert Mugabe
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Thom Yorke
„We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.“
― Thom Yorke ―
Picture of quotation author Douglas Rushkoff
„Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.“
Picture of quotation author Richie Havens
„Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.“
― Richie Havens ―
Picture of quotation author Adam McKay
„I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.“
― Adam McKay ―
Picture of quotation author Jennifer Granholm
„I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.“
Picture of quotation author Barack Obama
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Hall Caine
„That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.“
― Hall Caine ―
Picture of quotation author Tom Hodgkinson
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Jose Saramago
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Caleb Cushing
„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.“
― Caleb Cushing ―
Picture of quotation author Michael Leunig
„Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.“
― Michael Leunig ―
Picture of quotation author George Grosz
„I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.“
― George Grosz ―
Picture of quotation author Sherman Austin
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Paul Watson
„I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.“
― Paul Watson ―
Picture of quotation author Heather Brooke
„There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.“
― Heather Brooke ―

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