Protest Quotes - Page 5

• You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.

  Clint Black

  Taken, America, Wave

  Song: I Raq And Roll

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• The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.

  Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

  Different, Use, Movement

  "MI6 and ministers urged to use social networks" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.

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• All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power.

  Asmaa Mahfouz

  Broken, Outcomes, Steps

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• Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

  David Levithan

  Song, Long, Form

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.5, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician who has led anti-corruption protests, had a blog about a credit line to a company owned by Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, $1.75 billion from Russian state funds; this is one transaction. Putin controls more money directly and indirectly than any individual in human history.

  Garry Kasparov

  Politician, Individual, Fund

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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

  Michael Bloomberg

  Fun, Empty, Stomach

  "Police and protesters square off" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. August 27, 2004.

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• The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

  Storm Jameson

  Men, Redemption, Goes On

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.408, A&C Black

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• The left is quick to blame Donald Trump, but who are the protesters disrupting the events? Domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers was among the demonstrators in line outside the University of Illinois, Chicago pavilion. George Soros of Moveon.org fundraise off to destruction, post Chicago. If the bad guys are the ones behind the protest, why are we giving them so much air time and credibility?

  Eric Bolling

  Giving, Guy, Blame

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

  Tom Paulin

  Country, Thinking, People

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• I don't really know a lot about these 'anti-protest' laws. I'm only vaguely aware of them, but I don't have enough detailed knowledge about them to comment.

  George Brandis

  Law, Enough, Comment

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And vows were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,-- Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Lying, Struggle, Moving

  "Four Sonnets - IV" l. 9 (1922)

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• It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

  John Steinbeck

  Change For The Better, Grows, Persons

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• Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

  Vladimir Putin

  Two, Different, Action

  "Putin rejects claims of corruption over Sochi Winter Olympics". www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2014.

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• A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

  Jesse Ball

  Chance, Persons

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

  Ice Cube

  Careers, People, Trying

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• Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The steady supply of guns in the U.S. makes an already untenable situation even more dangerous, and all of us must raise our voices, write to Congress, hit the streets in protest, attend budget meetings of local municipalities - all to state our opposition to such criminal procedures and practices for our youth.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Writing, Mean, Gun

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Phones, Cells

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• Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

  William O. Douglas

  Mean, Community, Literature

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• If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

  Robert Orben

  People, Crooks, Stories

  "Comics' Barbs Keep White House Hopefuls On The Run" by Thomas J. Brazaitis, The Plain Dealer, p. 4A, March 14, 1992.

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• My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Truth, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative communities, autonomous forms of worker control, collective forms of health care, models of direct democracy and emancipatory modes of education.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Organization, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Freedom of speech, the right to dissent, the right to protest, that is what America is about. And politically every leader in this country and every American has got to stand up against any form of violence. That is unacceptable.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Leader, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

  Frederick William Faber

  Song, Strong, Weak

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.199

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• I was involved in some peaceful protests.

  Todd Akin

  Peaceful, Peaceful Protest, Involved

  "Akin acknowledges arrest at anti-abortion protest from long ago". www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2012.

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• I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

  Lydia Lunch

  Machines, One Woman

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