(390 quotes found)
“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men”
Abraham Lincoln
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
“Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice to the act”
The Talmud
“ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: "Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depress the head of him and sit thereon till he squawk it."”
Ambrose Bierce
“Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.”
Camille Paglia
“As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.”
William Allen White
“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibilityourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander.”
Mary McLeod Bethune
“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”
Lillian Smith
“In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.”
Bob Gibson
“The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.”
William Orville Douglas
