223 Quotes About Protest

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make?

Sometimes it's appropriate to scream at them.

So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.

Principles don't have borders.

It tends to be forgotten, among the moments of drama and violence, just how many days of uneventful protest took place outside the courtrooms and jails. No one was let into the courthouse. No one was registered to vote. But the line was drawn.

they’d want you to diffuse into the smoke but do they know they give birth to clouds who bring rain and thunder?

they shower water cannons but they do not know you’re a seed buried in the soil ready to geminate and penetrate your head out in this turmoil.