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• 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

  Determination, Inspiration, Half

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• The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Demand, Hell

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

  Pol Pot

  Enemy, Corpses

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• I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Skins, France, Handbags

  Speaking to onMilwaukee.com, February 1, 2005.

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• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Art, Years, Letters

  Letter declining Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1926)

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• I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Struggle, Government

  Nelson Mandela (1990). “One nation, one country”

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• Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Believe, Reality

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• You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authentic gentiles in our midst: these single protests are of no account; they are extreme and irrelevant variations.

  Maurice Samuel

  Variation, May, Way

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• As you know, there were lots of huge marches around the country yesterday to protest the immigration laws. The marches had quite an impact on businesses. Restaurants had to close, construction sites had to shut down, the Yankees had to forfeit a game. ... Do you realize that Americans are now doing the jobs that immigrants won't do because they're out protesting?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, Impact

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• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Giving, Benefits

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• Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity.

  Vida Goldstein

  Spiritual, Women, Humanity

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• It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

  Craig Reucassel

  Funny, Goal, Chance

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• Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

  Adolf Hitler

  Genius, New Inventions, Mass

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• Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

  Kumari Jayawardena

  Country, Women, Struggle

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• 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

  Life, Inspire, Albums

  Interview by Patricia Kennealy, www.jeffersonstarshipsf.com. February, 1971.

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• Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Hatred, Division, Our Society

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Blessed, America

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.171, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.

  Paul Robeson

  Song, People, Singing

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Perfect, Worry

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• Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who protest most in the provinces against anarchists, disorganisers, Dantonism, Robespierrism, Jacobinism... Do not cherish any longer the popular errors; cut at the roots of superstition! Declare openly that the priests are your enemies.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Cutting, Errors, Roots

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• I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Helping, Notes, Ifs

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• The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Heart, Thinking, Kind

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• A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Mistake, Bullshit

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

  Claude Monet

  Character, Giving, Sincerity

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• I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rock—clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipment—was an extension of this ethical viewpoint.

  Lynn Hill

  Children, War, Rocks

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