(378 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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
“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.”
“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
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better”
John Steinbeck
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