223 Quotes About Protest

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there's no fury facing it.

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.

A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument, which may be answered.

The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different.

when an assault rifle is aimed at your face over nothing more than a refusal to move, you don't feel like the American experience is one that includes you

The purpose of protest to to provoke a response. Trouble is some people prefer to address the appropriateness of the protest not the issue.

What would you expect to find when the muzzle that has silenced the voices of black men is removed? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?