One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand,...

Do something productive, like painting or procrastinating or protesting—which is just a combination of the first two.

Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer’s uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green...

Any government’s condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what’s happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance...

I am a Dalit in Khairlanji. A Pandit in the Kashmir valley. A Sikh in 1984. I am from the North East of India when I am in Munirka. I am a Muslim in Gujarat;...

Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!

It’s one thing to monitor protests and protest organizers, but quite another thing to refer them to your counterterrorism unit.

Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the...

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation...

I pray that your protest will remain peaceful . . . I say to you again, I am innocent. I will answer all the charges and I will prove that I am innocent,

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality...

Denn wir sind Neinsager. Aber wir sagen nicht nein aus Verzweiflung. Unser Nein ist Protest.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Today we are only marching in protest, but if you do not stop this assault (on Muhammad) we will sacrifice our souls and our blood for the prophet. Our message today is that we will...

[Rally organizers] specifically said they didn’t want a permit, … It’s a peaceful protest, so we’re going to take our time getting them out of here.

I honk at protestors to show my support, and also tell them to get the fuck out of my way.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and...

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.

Sometimes it’s appropriate to scream at them.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one.But, whereas animals don’t...

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

The foreign ministry has filed a strong protest while summoning the Philippines’ deputy representative to Taipei.

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might...

I want to solicit and invite every parent, every concerned citizen, and every Christian to come out and protest against the unfairness of the school system and school board to support our teachers and children.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

I’m late to dinner, but I’m early to being in love. I’m such a gentleman that I hold every door open—even if the guy sitting in the bathroom stall is protesting.

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more...

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

We passed on our protest, saying no shooting should have been done.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

We had come to know about their protest plan and had made arrangements in advance.

[Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn’t have left behind the FRICKING REASON FOR THEIR PROTEST!And that thought just cracked me up.]It was like my friends had walked over the backs of...

We will be there to protest the government’s provocations.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Poets can’t march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that’s against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that’s what it’ll get. One should never protest...

You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a...

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

We knew about their protest and had taken precautionary steps.

Protest is when I say I don’t like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance...

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

We will retain the right to protest, and will ask the Security Council to investigate the truth … about this factory,