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Protest Quotes

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

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

Dick Cheney, American Vice President

Protest, Genocide

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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?"

"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?"

Yann Martel, Canadian Author

Protest, Grief, Defiance, Faith, Loss

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"We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us."

"We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us."

Thom Yorke, English Musician

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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."

"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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"I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue."

"I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue."

Lotte Lehmann, German Musician

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

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

Peter O'Toole, Irish Actor

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

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Protest, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Wisdom

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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."

"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

Protest, Dissent, Silence, Power

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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."

"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

Protest, Money, Power, People

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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."

"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."

John Edward Redmond, Irish Politician

Protest, Ireland

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"I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence."

"I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Protest, Silence, Dissent, Strength

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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!"

"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

Protest, Society, Rebellion, Victims, Individualism

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