Michael Bloomberg Quotes

I have been arrested several times protesting.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

Never Tire of Protesting

The Bill was talked out! Peaceful methods had failed…. As the year 1905 went on, the Liberal leaders counted upon early political office. Manchester – the Free Trade Hall – was again to be the scene of a rally at which the Liberal Party would utter their war cry for the General Election. Here was my chance! Now there should be an act the effect of which would remain, a protest not of word but of deed. Prison this time! Prison would mean a fact that could not fade from the record.

I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

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

I was at St. Louis's very first tea party and stood across the mighty Mississippi on the Arch steps with a bunch of wide-eyed, virgin protesters who were just as shocked as I was to see the amount of people who had assembled.

I understand that we want to be in the middle of protests with our bodies and we want people to know that we're there supporting Black Lives Matter, which I'm 100 percent about. And I'm 100 percent about going to the bubble and doing it on national television where everybody sees it.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

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

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

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

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

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

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.