38 Quotes About Protests

Our true nationality is humankind, our only race is human

I’d watched the election of Barack Obama with them, in Harlem: the celebration had spilled out onto the streets and erupted into dancing, outdoor champagne-drinking, euphoria. This [the 1/21/17 Women's March on Washington, DC] was different. It was like laughter at a funeral—what else can you do but hold on to who you are and who you love? What can you do but try to stay sane and fight like hell for what life is all about?

If you're calling for peace, I am not home.

So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have done in the past? The best solution anyone has come up with is to say that violent revolutions can be avoided (and therefore, violent mobs legitimately suppressed) if 'the people' are understood to have the right to challenge the laws through nonviolent civil disobedience.

Right-wing Americans don't recognize fascism, even when it's right in front of their face, because they have been brainwashed by fascists their entire lives.

After 6 weeks of the 2019 #WeAreMaunaKea protests, 245595 supported the cause.

223692 people had objected to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea after five weeks of the 2019 #WeAreMaunaKea protests.

Four weeks after the #WeAreMaunaKea protests started in 2019, 215108 people had objected to the TMT project.

By day seven of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) protests, the petition had 131,580 signatures for shutting down the biologically toxic project.