Quotes About Protest❓
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.—Mandela
Protest that endures...is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.—Wendell Berry
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.—Shakespeare
Žižek, the protestors, the Buddha and Shitou share a common and easily forgotten truth: We cause suffering for ourselves and others when we lose our sense of connectedness.—??
And your doubt can become a good quality if you 'train' it. It must become 'knowing', it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, 'why' something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers—perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.—Rilke
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.—Elie Wiesel
The main shortcoming of my work is that I have not really accounted for human viciousness as I should have. It is not that man is ‘evil,’ but he is not ‘neutral’ either. He is terribly afraid of his own death, and of the insignificance of his life, his ‘creatureliness.’ And so, his whole life is a protest that he ‘is somebody,’ and this protest he takes out on others: he will even kill them to show that he can triumph over death. I think that the theoretical problem for our time is to harmonize this knowledge with the possibility of a humanistic science, and I am now writing what I think is my most mature work to that end.—Ernest Becker
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.—John F. Kerry
Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left—sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.―G.K. Chesterton
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.—Bayard Rustin
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
