"What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?"

Protest, Grief, Defiance, Faith, Loss

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"What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?"

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"If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!"

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record."

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"The boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

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"Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around."

Ralph Abernathy, American Activist

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"We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace."

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"There is a legend. And to protest is daft."

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"Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide."

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