(390 quotes found)
“It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, ... I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.”
Maya Angelou
“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
“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 labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.”
Wendell Phillips
“The lady doth protest too much, me thinks”
William Shakespeare
“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
“We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.”
Jose Narosky
“That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long- established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”
“It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better”
John Steinbeck
