Protest Quotes - Page 16

• 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

  Prayer, Kindness, Peaceful

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

  Steve Buyer

  Military, America, Worry

  Congressional Record 109th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 152, No. 66, May 24, 2006.

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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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• In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

  Bob Gibson

  Sports, Hate, Prejudice

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• Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.

  Warren Murphy

  Book, Writing, Careers

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• The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Military, Breathing, Punishment

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• In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

  Rand Paul

  Decision, Grandfather, Boards

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• In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Jail, Mexican

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• If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Ignorance, Wife

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.

  Jello Biafra

  Independent, Media, Usa

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• We thought that using rap would draw a parallel with the protest music from the 60s and 70s that we found through the research for animadoc. When we thought about rap, Emicida immediately came to mind and we decided to call him to create this song bring the audience back to earth and put their feet on the ground. Emicida's song is the only one that has lyrics in actual understandable Portuguese.

  Alex Abreu

  Song, Rap, Feet

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't believe in burning holy books, but I am organizing a protest. I'll be burning all my Dennis Miller VHS cassettes as a special protest. I don't want to hear the introduction 'you may have seen our next comedian on the Hannity show'.

  Andy Kindler

  Believe, Book, Comedian

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• There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, 'America Is Better Than Abortion.' I think she meant that America was too good a place for the horror of abortion. But instead, it sounded like she had weighed both - the American spirit and getting an abortion and decided that American spirit better. I think it is a bad idea to have grammatically ambiguous protest signs.

  Eugene Mirman

  Thinking, Ideas, America

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• If nobody is clear on what you're protesting, it's not a protest. Thousands of people gathered in London this week to voice their disapproval of the G-20. Their basic message being, Stop all your globalizing and unite the world!

  Bill Maher

  Voice, People, World

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• Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

  Garry Winogrand

  War, Rights, Black

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.

  John F. Kerry

  War, America, Want

  "CNN Daybreak", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

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• It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Fun, Writing, Dry Up

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• I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from.

  Justin Broadrick

  Spiritual, Political, Backgrounds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.

  Cecily McMillan

  War, School, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just keep thinking of how many times I`ve heard Ferguson effect. And I`ve heard it because of protests, officers are afraid to do their job because of - because of a YouTube effect.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Jobs, Thinking, Ferguson

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

  Trent Lott

  Responsibility, People, Want

  "Two Former Senators Share Thoughts On The 2016 Campaign". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. January 25, 2016.

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• An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

  Benjamin Crump

  Innocent Person, People, Police

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.

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• Jesse Owens had to be a very strong person. There were a lot of protests, but I think that he knew, despite the pressure on both sides, the pressure to go and the pressure not to go, he had to do it for himself. Unknowingly, he changed the world and broke so many barriers by doing so, by being a leader.

  Stephan James

  Strong, Thinking, Leader

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• Iran has a young population, and the desire to get out from under conservative religious social restrictions and to be able to speak their mind without fear of arrest is palpable. But nearly seven years after authorities crushed massive street protests, reformers are still threatened with arrest and expectations for change are extremely low.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Religious, Iran, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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