Protest Quotes - Page 23

• 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

  Secret, West, Population

  10 Copy quote

• While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.

  Amy Waldman

  New York, Zero, People

  7 Copy quote

• Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

  Jim C. Walton

  War, Voice, Iraq

  8 Copy quote

• Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

  William Edgar

  Consensus

  4 Copy quote

• I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what I’m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work I’ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I don’t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.

  Nancy Spero

  Art, Thinking, Feminist

  38 Copy quote

• Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hate, Party, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

• The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

  Ethel Smyth

  Clouds, Indulge In, Personality

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Protests [against Donald Trump] four nights running.Thousands marching across the country.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Running, Country, Night

  4 Copy quote

• We need to also act out, and anything that [Donald] Trump does, anything he's trying to do that we don't agree with or anything this country is doing in general that we don't agree with, we need to protest, we need to make our voices heard. And that has to go beyond Twitter - for me as well.

  Ansel Elgort

  Country, Voice, Trying

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I talked to Shailene Woodley the next day [after arrest]. She was fine, and she was very happy. She knew that it brought attention to a cause that she cared very much about. She was in high spirits and knew that was a possibility when she was protesting. The people who arrested her, if they were trying to prove a point of not to protest, they only helped the cause.

  Ansel Elgort

  Next Day, People, Trying

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why I supported Keith Ellison for chairing the DNC because I know Keith. And I know he`s not going to take a lot of stuff. He`s going to be in the halls of Congress arguing. But he is going to go out to the protests and talk to people.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  People, Keith, Stuff

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.

  Bill McKibben

  Smart, Squares, Uprising

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer.  He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.

  Nat Hentoff

  Bob, Singers, Dylan

  Source: www.rutherford.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.

  Vivek Shraya

  Voice, Body, Online

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There must be engagement: there must be protest.

  B. W. Powe

  Engagement

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

  Vivek Shraya

  Art, Use, Narrative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State).

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Height, Resistance

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If President Obama wants to keep calling for protests, then that will be his legacy, one of division, rich versus poor, old versus young, black versus white, always dividing. That's what you get under President Obama.

  Sean Hannity

  White, Black, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.

  Edward Snowden

  Organization, People, Interesting

  Source: www.thenation.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.

  Matthew Dowd

  Exercise, Rights, America

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be told by a supervisor that the charge on our cable bill can't be removed; we click a crying emoji on Facebook as our last whimper of protest. So rather than end the story ["Ice Age"] with the expected violence and destruction of evil, I wanted to focus on the way the characters end up sabotaging their own community though their attachments to the consumerism of the old world.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Ice, Attachment

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Normalcy, Range

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.

  David Frum

  Democracy, Meetings

  Source: www.cbc.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

  Deray McKesson

  People, Political, Important

  Source: www.progressive.org

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.

  James Taranto

  Problem

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source