Protest Quotes

• 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
  • Friend
  • Protest

• I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what I’m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work I’ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I don’t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.

  

  Nancy Spero
  • Certain
  • Strongest
  • Privileged

• If you're going to point out the ridiculousness of a rule, it's naïve to think that you can break it. It's the same way that rappers have embraced capitalism. Some people say they liked it better when rap was a literal protest form in the '90s. But I think it's more a form of protest today, because it's telling the story of what happens once something forbidden is within reach. I think rap is more political today when it speaks about luxury watches than it does about fighting the power.

  

  Chilly Gonzales
  • Today
  • Political
  • Fighting

• ...And how that girl did talk against time to make us think she was crazy about her Louie. She called attention to his honesty and his ability and his nose and the shape of his feet and his blue blood and his energy and what-have-you, and all the time, I was dying to quote that smart old Billy Shakespeare who was just as wordy as she was: 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Energy
  • Attention
  • Blood

• The left is quick to blame Donald Trump, but who are the protesters disrupting the events? Domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers was among the demonstrators in line outside the University of Illinois, Chicago pavilion. George Soros of Moveon.org fundraise off to destruction, post Chicago. If the bad guys are the ones behind the protest, why are we giving them so much air time and credibility?

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Chicago
  • Blame
  • Donald Trump

• Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Children
  • Love
  • Perspective

• The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Said
  • Protest
  • Pessimism

• Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

  

  William Edgar
  • Protest
  • Consensus

• Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Science
  • Law
  • Crime

• It was tough. That may happen at the Trials. You are so in the zone when you are in there it's tough running halfway down the track and having to come back. If it's in the rules then an athlete should be able to run under protest. Aries is not a guy that is know for false starts. Now I need to go and get ready for the Trials.

  

  David Oliver
  • Running
  • Athlete
  • Happens

• A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Different
  • Together
  • Moments

• There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, 'America Is Better Than Abortion.' I think she meant that America was too good a place for the horror of abortion. But instead, it sounded like she had weighed both - the American spirit and getting an abortion and decided that American spirit better. I think it is a bad idea to have grammatically ambiguous protest signs.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • America
  • Spirit
  • Horror

• "No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Protest
  • Pants
  • Reports

• The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • Freedom
  • Fall
  • Courage

• Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Help
  • Worry
  • Protest

• When I gave signs of protest she nearly reminded me of the money she was giving me. She stopped in time, but not so that I didn't understand: it was like when someone is about to hit you and then doesn't.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Understand
  • Hit
  • Mmoney

• Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Purpose
  • Silence
  • Liberty

• The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Mind
  • Conclusion
  • Nonsense

• Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Doubt

• I protest against any absolute conclusion.

  

  George Eliot
  • Conclusion
  • Protest

• Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Wanted
  • Singer
  • Protest

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