Banners Quotes

• On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Shot
  • Taliban

• The hunger strike at UCLA led to hundreds of students actually studying the farm worker experience and Chicanos in the context of Latin America, whereas they would have been on the outside raising fists and banners. So I count that as activism inside the classroom.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Experience
  • America
  • Students

• We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this!

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Voices
  • Wave

• If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

  

  George Eliot
  • Clothes
  • Meaning
  • Occasion

• Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Society
  • Slavery
  • Republican

• Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

  

  George Sterling
  • Nations
  • Ghost
  • Banners

• The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • War
  • Speech
  • Gospel