protest

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
942b46f	Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.	inspirational activism song-lyrics protest	Bob Marley
aa14207	The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.	truth-telling inspirational activism dissent protest	Kurt Cobain
59f2b2b	It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.	truth-telling protest	Neil Gaiman
460498b	There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.	les-misérables protest	Victor Hugo
f8f98c3	The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.	freedom-of-expression freedom-of-choice freedom-of-speech weapon freedom-of-thought weapons protest	Martin Luther King Jr.
519c8df	We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.	hatred racism nonviolence segregation civil-rights-movement civil-rights racism-in-america peace conscience resistance protest	Martin Luther King Jr.
ea41fa8	And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.	protest	Ralph Ellison
7c7e0d7	"You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels." "Its own grave-diggers," he said. "But these are not the grave-diggers. This is the free market itself. These people are a fantasy generated by the market. They don't exist outside the market. There is nowhere they can go to be on the outside. There is no outside." The camera tracked a cop chasing a young man through the crowd, an image that seemed to exist at some drifting distance from the moment. "The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the markets of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system."	resistance cosmopolis protest	Don DeLillo
2507fdb	There was something theatrical about the protest, ingratiating even. . . . There was a shadow of transaction between the demonstrators and the state. The protest was a form of systemic hygiene, purging and lubricating. It attested again, for the ten thousandth time, to the market culture's innovative brilliance, its ability to shape itself to its own flexible ends, absorbing everything around it.	state systems protest	Don DeLillo
b2a603a	I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.	politics government protest	Henry David Thoreau
ab7484d	It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.	demonstration effectiveness social-change protest	John Scalzi
101c80e	"What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth century? In stupefaction Ulrich watches the demonstrators from the window; as they reach the foot of the palace, their faces turn up, turn furious, the men brandish their walking sticks, but "a few steps farther, at a bend where the demonstration seemed to scatter into the wings, most of them were already dropping their greasepaint: it would be absurd to keep up the menacing looks where there were no more spectators." In the light of that metaphor, the demonstrators are not men in a rage; they are actors performing rage! As soon as the performance is over they are quick to drop their greasepaint! Later, in the 1960s, philosophers would talk about the modern world in which everything had turned into spectacle: demonstrations, wars, and even love; through this "quick and sagacious penetration" (Fielding), Musil had already long ago discerned the "society of spectacle."	rage politics demonstration spectacle activism modernism artifice protest	Milan Kundera
d83b867	New Rule: The sad mime at every protest has to give it a rest. One sign you're a major annoyance: when you haven't said anything and I want to tell you to shut the fuck up.	protest	Bill Maher
d8fcad2	Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.	unionization labor civil-rights resist resistance protest	Howard Zinn
1c19ba1	At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.	protest	Jack Kerouac
d34484e	Shout to the top!	happy fun joy life shout cheer protest voice	Rebecca McNutt
076e2f3	"Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don't recall just who gave me the quote. I placed it next to my voting card and have carried it ever since. The quote came from Elie Wiesel's book One Generation After. The quote was entitled "Why I Protest." Author Elie Wiesel tells the story of the one righteous man of Sodom, who walked the streets protesting against the injustice of this city. People made fun of him, derided him. Finally, a young person asked: "Why do you continue your protest against evil; can't you see no one is paying attention to you?" He answered, "I'll tell you why I continue. In the beginning, I thought I would change people. Today, I know I cannot. Yet, if I continue my protest, at least I will prevent others from changing me." I'm not that pessimistic that we can't change people's beliefs or that people will not respond to the message of liberty and peace. But we must always be on guard not to let others change us once we gain the confidence that we are on the right track in the search for truth." --	politics confidence truth elie-wiesel ron-paul liberty peace protest	Ron Paul
a926068	"Where there is no derision the people perish," said Chiffan. "Now who said that?" asked Steenhold, always anxious to check his quotations. "It sounds familiar." "I said it," said Chiffan. "Get on with your suggestions."	free-speech protest	H.G. Wells
08fe173	"Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper in Ruleville, Mississippi, became legendary as organizer and speaker. She sang hymns; she walked picket lines with her familiar limp (as a child she contracted polio). She roused people to excitement at mass meetings: "I'm sick an' tired o' bein' sick an' tired!"	woman protest	Howard Zinn
70be467	Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to theguilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.	wrong stand-up society protest	Ray Bradbury
f3e4ae0	Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.	mind heart speak head cool consider counsel discuss hothead realize think sense talk protest	Robin Hobb
dbd5294	"What would you expect to find when the muzzle that has silenced the voices of black men is removed?	literature black-powder blackness french protest	Jean-Paul Sartre
8f87126	"PJ's suggested chant, for pointless protest marches: "Five, four, three, two. We don't have a doggone clue!"	humor pointless protest	P.J. O'Rourke
7bcb2e9	Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand, happened in February 1971, and the campuses were quiet. Who wants to stage a walkout in February?	war protest weather	Rebecca Goldstein

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

inspirational activism song-lyrics protest

Bob Marley

aa14207

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

truth-telling inspirational activism dissent protest

Kurt Cobain

59f2b2b

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

truth-telling protest

Neil Gaiman

460498b

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

les-misérables protest

Victor Hugo

f8f98c3

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

freedom-of-expression freedom-of-choice freedom-of-speech weapon freedom-of-thought weapons protest

Martin Luther King Jr.

519c8df

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

hatred racism nonviolence segregation civil-rights-movement civil-rights racism-in-america peace conscience resistance protest

Martin Luther King Jr.

ea41fa8

And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.

protest

Ralph Ellison

7c7e0d7

"You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels." "Its own grave-diggers," he said. "But these are not the grave-diggers. This is the free market itself. These people are a fantasy generated by the market. They don't exist outside the market. There is nowhere they can go to be on the outside. There is no outside." The camera tracked a cop chasing a young man through the crowd, an image that seemed to exist at some drifting distance from the moment. "The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the markets of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system."

resistance cosmopolis protest

Don DeLillo

2507fdb

There was something theatrical about the protest, ingratiating even. . . . There was a shadow of transaction between the demonstrators and the state. The protest was a form of systemic hygiene, purging and lubricating. It attested again, for the ten thousandth time, to the market culture's innovative brilliance, its ability to shape itself to its own flexible ends, absorbing everything around it.

state systems protest

Don DeLillo

b2a603a

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

politics government protest

Henry David Thoreau

ab7484d

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

demonstration effectiveness social-change protest

John Scalzi

101c80e

"What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth century? In stupefaction Ulrich watches the demonstrators from the window; as they reach the foot of the palace, their faces turn up, turn furious, the men brandish their walking sticks, but "a few steps farther, at a bend where the demonstration seemed to scatter into the wings, most of them were already dropping their greasepaint: it would be absurd to keep up the menacing looks where there were no more spectators." In the light of that metaphor, the demonstrators are not men in a rage; they are actors performing rage! As soon as the performance is over they are quick to drop their greasepaint! Later, in the 1960s, philosophers would talk about the modern world in which everything had turned into spectacle: demonstrations, wars, and even love; through this "quick and sagacious penetration" (Fielding), Musil had already long ago discerned the "society of spectacle."

rage politics demonstration spectacle activism modernism artifice protest

Milan Kundera

d83b867

New Rule: The sad mime at every protest has to give it a rest. One sign you're a major annoyance: when you haven't said anything and I want to tell you to shut the fuck up.

protest

Bill Maher

d8fcad2

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

unionization labor civil-rights resist resistance protest

Howard Zinn

1c19ba1

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

protest

Jack Kerouac

d34484e

Shout to the top!

happy fun joy life shout cheer protest voice

Rebecca McNutt

076e2f3

"Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don't recall just who gave me the quote. I placed it next to my voting card and have carried it ever since. The quote came from Elie Wiesel's book One Generation After. The quote was entitled "Why I Protest." Author Elie Wiesel tells the story of the one righteous man of Sodom, who walked the streets protesting against the injustice of this city. People made fun of him, derided him. Finally, a young person asked: "Why do you continue your protest against evil; can't you see no one is paying attention to you?" He answered, "I'll tell you why I continue. In the beginning, I thought I would change people. Today, I know I cannot. Yet, if I continue my protest, at least I will prevent others from changing me." I'm not that pessimistic that we can't change people's beliefs or that people will not respond to the message of liberty and peace. But we must always be on guard not to let others change us once we gain the confidence that we are on the right track in the search for truth." --

politics confidence truth elie-wiesel ron-paul liberty peace protest

Ron Paul

a926068

"Where there is no derision the people perish," said Chiffan. "Now who said that?" asked Steenhold, always anxious to check his quotations. "It sounds familiar." "I said it," said Chiffan. "Get on with your suggestions."

free-speech protest

H.G. Wells

08fe173

"Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper in Ruleville, Mississippi, became legendary as organizer and speaker. She sang hymns; she walked picket lines with her familiar limp (as a child she contracted polio). She roused people to excitement at mass meetings: "I'm sick an' tired o' bein' sick an' tired!"

woman protest

Howard Zinn

70be467

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to theguilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

wrong stand-up society protest

Ray Bradbury

f3e4ae0

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

mind heart speak head cool consider counsel discuss hothead realize think sense talk protest

Robin Hobb

dbd5294

"What would you expect to find when the muzzle that has silenced the voices of black men is removed?

literature black-powder blackness french protest

Jean-Paul Sartre

8f87126

"PJ's suggested chant, for pointless protest marches: "Five, four, three, two. We don't have a doggone clue!"

humor pointless protest

P.J. O'Rourke

7bcb2e9

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand, happened in February 1971, and the campuses were quiet. Who wants to stage a walkout in February?

war protest weather

Rebecca Goldstein