Peaceful Demonstration Quotes

When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.

There are many avenues to peacefully protest, but those rights don't extend to illegal actions, breaching security perimeters, and threatening police officers.

We cannot have a political club and call it an army.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

Peacable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

Yisrael Beiteinu has no objection to the nonviolent expression of opinion. It is violent speech that forms a clear and present danger that we refuse to tolerate.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.