Protest quotes
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She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.
-- Ally Carter -
Art is a protest against death.
-- Audrey Flack -
There must be engagement: there must be protest.
-- B. W. Powe -
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.
-- Chico Hamilton -
Passionately protest mediocrity.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
Just because your muscles start to protest, doesn't mean you have to listen.
-- Dianne Holum -
My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
-- Emile Zola -
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Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
-- Eric Hoffer -
the mute protest in your own bones
-- George Orwell -
There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.
-- Giorgio Armani -
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
-- Joan Baez -
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We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education,
-- Joe Hockey -
Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.
-- John Knowles -
A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!
-- Kate Fox -
What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you.
-- Katy Evans -
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
-- Lew Wallace -
What are you doing?†she cried in protest. “Playing,†he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.
-- Linda Howard -
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
-- Lorraine Hansberry -
I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.
-- Lotte Lehmann -
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I'm like a one-woman protest machine.
-- Lydia Lunch -
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
-- Mario Vargas Llosa -
Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [his or her] convictions, but we must all protest.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
-- Miguel de Unamuno -
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I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.
-- Nelson Mandela -
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
-- Paul Kantner -
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
-- Phil Ochs -
He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.
-- Pol Pot -
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I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.
-- Richard Littlejohn -
All literature is protest.
-- Richard Wright -
There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.
-- Russ Feingold -
I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend.
-- Sarah J. Maas -
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We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.
-- Timothy M. Dolan -
I was involved in some peaceful protests.
-- Todd Akin -
Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.
-- Ulrike Meinhof -
Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place
-- Ulrike Meinhof -
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Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
-- Ulrike Meinhof -
Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?
-- William Edgar -
Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.
-- Aleksandra Mir -
I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.
-- Ardal O'Hanlon -
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I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from.
-- Justin Broadrick -
There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
-- Peter O'Toole -
The Establishment is always against protest.
-- Philip Hart -
We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.
-- Zainab al-Khawaja -
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I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.
-- Allard K. Lowenstein -
You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.
-- Masha Gessen -
Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.
-- James Taranto -
You can protest, you can protest peacefully, but keep things civil.
-- Tim Soutphommasane -
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In Maidan Square right now, you see thousands of Ukrainians protesting the Russian occupation of Crimea. So this is a Russian protest by Ukrainians who want their sovereignty. They want their freedom and they're protesting what Russia did in Crimea.
-- Kelly Ayotte
