Protest quotes

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◆ Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

- Bob Marley100

◆ A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

- Edward Abbey99

◆ Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

- William Faulkner99

◆ Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

- Charles De Gaulle99

◆ I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Wiesel99

◆ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel99

◆ 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 Rustin99

◆ I didn't want to be a f***ing pop star. I wanted to be a protest singer.

- Sinead O'Connor99

◆ To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

- Julien Green99

◆ It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

- Michael Bloomberg99

◆ 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 Filner99

◆ The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

- Peter L Berger99

◆ We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

- Jose Narosky99