Protest Quotes (135 quotes)

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 Elizabeth Wurtzel
„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.“
Picture of quotation author Naomi Wolf
„Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.“
― Naomi Wolf ―
Picture of quotation author Naomi Wolf
„Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.“
― Naomi Wolf ―
Picture of quotation author Naomi Wolf
„In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.“
― Naomi Wolf ―
Picture of quotation author Robert Winston
„About 3 million IVF babies have been born since Louise Brown's birth in 1978. Bizarrely, when this life-giving treatment was first considered, it was massively controversial. A storm of vitriolic protest came from many religious leaders, journalists, politicians, regrettably even other scientists and doctors.“
― Robert Winston ―
Picture of quotation author Juan Williams
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Ellen Wilkinson
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Ella Wheeler Wilcox
„To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.“
Picture of quotation author Elie Wiesel
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Elie Wiesel
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Paul Watson
„I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.“
― Paul Watson ―
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 Denzel Washington
„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.“
Picture of quotation author John Montgomery Ward
„In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.“
Picture of quotation author Jane Velez-Mitchell
„What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.“
Picture of quotation author Walter Ulbricht
„The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.“
― Walter Ulbricht ―
Picture of quotation author Cy Twombly
„Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.“
― Cy Twombly ―
Picture of quotation author Serj Tankian
„When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.“
― Serj Tankian ―
Picture of quotation author David Sylvian
„It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.“
― David Sylvian ―

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