Quotes of: Protests Keyword

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.

Shawn Amos

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

David Selby

Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.

Michael Wadleigh

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Alex Campbell

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

Aly Khan

It is natural to celebrate the winning moments. However, we need to be equally conscious that we protest or resist the instances of cheating either by others or by self.

Vishwas Chavan

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

Ernest Istook

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

Sue Monk Kidd

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very e...

Graham Nash

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

The Power of the Powerless

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

The Protest

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

Orson Welles

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

Philip Kearny

...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.

Stephen Fry

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

Stanley Hauerwas

A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.

Stephen Kinzer

It’s never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut-down.

Steve Maraboli

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Karen Bass

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

Mark Skousen

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?

Mark Thomas