223 Quotes About Protest

Evil does not just arise from nothingness, most of the time it is nurtured by society’s failure to activate its moral standards

Greatness through truth.

Not everyone is equipped for activism in the traditional sense—marching, writing letters to officials—but dedicating your life to understanding yourself can be its own form of protest, especially when the world tells you that you don't exist.

Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?

Confrontation is not bad. Goodness is supposed to confront evil.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

If one of us falls victim to injustice and we do not speak out, we all fall.

Protest is telling the truth in public. Sometimes protest is telling the truth to a public that isn’t quite ready to hear it. Protest is, in its own way, a storytelling. We use our bodies, our words, our art, and our sounds both to tell the truth about the pain that we endure and to demand the justice that we know is possible. It is meant to build and to force a response.