Rosie O'Donnell Quotes

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

The protest is part of the American way of life.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

I don't think there's any perfect way to protest.

If something's not right, then you have to take to the streets and make it right.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

One night I will never ever forget is when I was in the thick of a protest. There were nearly one million people outside Parliament. I've never seen anything like it in my life.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

We need to also act out, and anything that [Donald] Trump does, anything he's trying to do that we don't agree with or anything this country is doing in general that we don't agree with, we need to protest, we need to make our voices heard. And that has to go beyond Twitter - for me as well.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.