Protesting Quotes

“If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Anger is a gift. Remember that." She stood. "You gotta grasp onto it, hold it tight and use it as ammunition. You use that anger to get things done instead of just stewing in it.”
― Mark Oshiro, Anger Is a Gift

“I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men —even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.”
― K. Lee Lerner, Government, Politics, and Protest:: Essential Primary Sources

“Most people mostly use freedom of speech as freedom to bitch.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Solving some problems requires less than half the energy or time it took to complain about them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Only the myopic magnifying lens of the television camera maintains the demonstration, march, and picketing as a modality of political expression; they have otherwise faded into meaninglessness since the end of the Vietnam War with the shift of urban form and activity. These acts and activities have been displaced over the past decade from the square and main street to the windswept emptiness of City Hall Mall or Federal Building Plaza. To encounter a ragtag mob of protesters in such places today renders them enve more pathetic, their marginality enforced by a physcial displacement into so unimportant, uninhabited, and unloved a civic location. ”
― Trevor Boddy

“It’s complete madness! There are cars on fire, shops being looted by teenagers, people rioting and protesting over something they have no control over. And these are people that haven’t even had to deal with the infected, yet! They’re destroying their neighborhoods like savages, instead of preparing for the hell that’s about to hit them like a tsunami! Mark my words, when the infection reaches this area, they are all going to be infected within the first hour because they are not prepared to defend themselves. They are too busy being stupid!”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Some people make it extremely difficult to continue believing that complaining is not one of the basic human needs.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Even the tiny protests help”
― Patsy Mink

“Protesting often times takes a stance of offense; a form of violence that may not always be physical but is a form of violence all the same. Everyone has the right to be heard, but only if they are willing to really listen to others in an attempt to understand.”
― Eric Overby

“If peaceful protesting really worked, the need to peacefully protest would have subsided to almost zero a long time ago! Instead, the thing that has subsided to almost zero are the number of complaints filed against police officers that are actually upheld.”
― Steven Magee

“If protesting, do no harm to yourself or others. Peaceful protest is more effective when creating real change. Peaceful protest wins over the hearts and minds of the majority. That majority continues to grow. It is like sunlight and water for your garden.”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“Wearing a protest T-shirt is the easiest form of protesting.”
― Steven Magee

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”
― Steven Magee

“Protesting problems doesn’t really bring solutions. It just brings more problems.

We reap what we sow.

If we want to reap happiness, we must sow happiness. And that happiness inspires, strengthens others and builds bridges.

If we want solutions, we have to think about solutions and be detached from the problem.

Otherwise, [if we focus on the problem] we take the problem with us, [keep it active,] and poison the future.

If we want to reap love, we must love. With no ifs and buts.
And, we need to do it OURSELVES instead of asking others to do it.

This is freedom. This is empowerment.
This is our own solution from the problem, from our sorrow, frrom our pain.

And the more people detach themselves from the unwanted, and walk the path of love, and [focus on] the joy of the wanted, the more solutions we achieve for the world.”
― Elke Heinrich

“There's a very thin line between rightfully protesting, and protesting so much that it becomes clear you're trying to hide something.”
― Aimee Carter, Queen

“I once tried to impress him by telling him about the time my friends and I had climbed on Newt Gingrich's car. Bernie was unmoved; his attitude was basically, "Well, what else would you have been doing?”
― Alyssa Mastromonaco, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House

“To follow what is good and just; is to be willing to be wounded in war. Protesting in causes of "non-violence" is better than a cause in which there is no justice at all.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Protesting can be as simple as not participating in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
― Steven Magee

“What we require is a balance between protest and stability. This is never easy to obtain but is worth attempting, because we know that if through indifference we lose our liberties we shall not regain them in this century.”
― James MICHENER

“I was not surprised to find the poor were protesting the extravagant expense of the Moon landing back in the 1960’s.”
― Steven Magee

“It's painful fighting for freedom. Freedom has demands. To begin, we must admit we're slaves.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“And I like saying something, even if I'm saying it quietly.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“It was my conclusion that any people who were oppressed, particularly gay people like myself, could not depend upon others to be our heroes. We could not quit struggling for survival because one man with charisma and foresight had been murdered. There had to be enough of us to carry our own banners, even though the majority of us were still unseen. If we wanted conditions to be different, it was up to us to accomplish the change. And if some of us fell in battle, there would be a surplus of gay people to continue the fight - forever!”
― Troy D. Perry, Don't Be Afraid Anymore: The Story of Reverend Troy D. Perry and the Metropolitan Community Churches

“Unlike some moderate churchpeople, the gays in Central Park were not constrained by a philosophy of nonviolence.”
― Troy D. Perry, Don't Be Afraid Anymore: The Story of Reverend Troy D. Perry and the Metropolitan Community Churches

“You can't sleep beside me,' I hissed.

'I'm not.' With the edge of his blanket in hand, he draped it, along with his arm, over me.

The heavy weight of his appendage settled at my waist, stunning me for a few precious moments. 'What do you call this, then?'

'I'm sleeping with you.'

My eyes opened wide. 'How is that any different?'

'There's a huge difference.' His warm breath coasted over my cheek, causing my pulse to dip and then rise.

I stared at the darkness, every part of my body focused on the feel of his arm around me. 'You can't sleep with me, Hawke.'

'And I can't have you freezing or getting sick. It's too dangerous to light a fire, and unless you'd rather I got someone else to sleep with you, there really aren't many other options.'

'I don't want anyone else to sleep with me.'

'I already knew that,' he replied, his tone both teasing and smug.

Heat blasted my cheeks. 'I don't want anyone to sleep with me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Do not expect those the system has elevated and given employment to support you in your fight against the system.”
― Eduvie Donald

“A police officer is paid to be attacked by angry people.”
― Steven Magee

“To riot or not to riot, that is the question.”
― Steven Magee