223 Quotes About Protest

Saturday: the bill is debated. That morning, the union fills the viewingarea. Some people get in. I don’t. I stand outside holding a placard someone else wrote. Some people in suits, who work for the people who run this town, aredisdainful. We take their seats in the public viewing area. They think, “Whydon’t you go home?

You stand up because you believe, not because you want to win. I don't want you add more hate to this world. We have enough.

Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process.

In the face of mass atrocities, we stand in mass indifference rationalized by logic that sees us through the day.

Today, while the cyber world rages with ideologies and passionate moral perspectives, the streets remain comatose, echoing nothing but silence.

What is worse than indifference is when people’s nationalism allows for the conscious rationalisation of brutality as part of a political balance sheet. It is but a grave oversight when people shift their responsibility towards moral values for the duty to obey.

This protest spoke to me—the humanist principles felt connected to the minimalist essence of long-distance hiking, the desire to transcend the smoke and mirrors of our country’s established society, revealing what remains in all its splendor: the magnificent, resilient human soul.

Wearing a protest T-shirt is the easiest form of protesting.

Over 275,000 people had signed to end the construction of the TMT telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) by week 20 of the protest.