“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
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice to the act”
The Talmud
“If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“We're investigating what happened and why. Apparently they went there as an act of protest and were not going to leave.”
Russ Marlan
“They said they were carrying out this act to protest at the incidents in the southeast in recent days.”
Celalettin Cerrah
“It only takes one protest to trigger a hearing, but I think they have two protests filed against them. (I) don't know the nature of what those protests are at this point.”
Danny Brazell