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#1

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest

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#2

“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 expressing the highest respect for the law”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest

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#3

“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.”
― William Lloyd Garrison

tags: abolition, abolitionist, dissent, free-speech, protest, slavery

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#4

“Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.”
― John F. Kennedy

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#5

“To remind him, and perhaps myself, that any hope for the future depends on our ability to reclaim the narrative of a long con- tinuum of resistance that has been the foundation of our country and the bulwark against the very forces that have threatened our democracy since its founding.”
― Jeff Biggers, Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition

tags: american-history, american-revolution, civil-rights, dissent, jeff-biggers, protest, resistance

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#6

“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to thèguilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: courage, protest, society, stand-up, wrong

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#7

“Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper in Ruleville, Mississippi, became legendary as organizer and speaker. She sang hymns; she walked picket lines with her familiar limp (as a child she contracted polio). She roused people to excitement at mass meetings: "I'm sick an' tired o' bein' sick an' tired!”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

tags: picket, protest, woman

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#8

“Principles don't have borders.”
― Alisha Rai, Wrong to Need You

tags: borders, principles, protest, rights

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#9

“A seat at the table is desired. But I'll scream from the street if I need to.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

tags: acknowledgement, activism, appreciation, be-heard, being-heard, belonging, genius, outspoken, protest, welcomed

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#10

“The purpose of protest to to provoke a response. Trouble is some people prefer to address the appropriateness of the protest not the issue.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

tags: protest, response

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#11

“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

tags: civil-disobedience, government, politics, protest

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#12

“When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: anger, ethics, morality, power, protest, weakness

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#13

“To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men. The human race
Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised
Against injustice, ignorance, and lust,
The inquisition yet would serve the law,
And guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare, must speak and speak again
To right the wrongs of many. Speech, thank God,
No vested power in this great day and land
Can gag or throttle. Press and voice may cry
Loud disapproval of existing ills;
May criticise oppression and condemn
The lawlessness of wealth-protecting laws
That let the children and childbearers toil
To purchase ease for idle millionaires.

Therefore I do protest against the boast
Of independence in this mighty land.
Call no chain strong, which holds one rusted link.
Call no land free, that holds one fettered slave.
Until the manacled slim wrists of babes
Are loosed to toss in childish sport and glee,
Until the mother bears no burden, save
The precious one beneath her heart, until
God’s soil is rescued from the clutch of greed
And given back to labor, let no man
Call this the land of freedom.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

tags: america, freedom, poems, poetry, protest, united-states

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#14

“It's an insidious thing," Wanda said. "It never happens overnight. This kind of thing crept into our community a long time ago. It latched on. It fed on prejudice. Selfishness. Peoples inability to see life through someone else's eyes. And it grew, bigger and bigger, until we got to a point where some people don't even question why a cop should be allowed to shoot first and ask questions later.”
― Mark Oshiro, Anger Is a Gift

tags: anger-is-a-gift, cops, gun-control, laws, police, police-brutality, protest, racism, rebellion

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#15

“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
― Naomi Shulman

tags: justice, nazis, politics, protest, resistance

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#16

“The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power”
― Wael Ghonim

tags: citizen, egypt, nonviolent-resistance, people-power, protest, resistance, revolution, wael-ghonim

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#17

“If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you’re passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: abolish, aid, argue, arrives, attack, beliefs, cause, challenge, complain, complaint, concern, day, demonstrate, demonstration, disapprove, equal, equality, find, forget, forgot, forgotten, free, freedom, help, helping-others, just, justice, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, liberty, march, object, objection, one-love, opinion, overturn, passion, passionate, protect, protest, protest-quotes, protestation, revolt, revolution, right, share, solidarity, solidarity-quotes, speak, speak-up, spoke, stand-up, together, togetherness, union, unity, voice, wait

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#18

“I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

tags: barbaric, barbarism, differences, future, intolerance, politics, protest, racism, tolerance, violence

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#19

“when an assault rifle is aimed at your face over nothing more than a refusal to move, you don't feel like the American experience is one that includes you”
― Kareem Jackson

tags: black-in-america, civil-rights, protest

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#20

“A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

tags: activism, dissent, protest

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#21

“Justice has a right to protest against injustice.”
― sir kristian goldmund aumann

tags: injustice, justice, protest

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#22

“Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

tags: ignorance, insanity, madness, madness-and-civilization, protest, stupid-people, stupidity

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#23

“Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?”
― Christina Engela

tags: care, human-rights, numbers-game, pitch, protest

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#24

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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#25

“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: dreams, fearless, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, mind, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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#26

“This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache. You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can't know what it's like to feel holy until you know what it's like to feel really fucking evil. And you can't be birthed again until you've died.”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

tags: inspirtation, life-lessons

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#27

“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: gratitude, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thoughts

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