Protest Action Quotes

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.

If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.

We have taken this action, because as women…we realize that the condition of our sex is so deplorable that it is our duty even to break the law in order to call attention to the reasons why we do so.

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

A lot of people think that keying a car isn't the right way to get back at a guy. I disagree.

The Pennsylvania line have been for some time much dissatisfied, on Monday last they turned out in number about 1200 declaring they would serve no longer unless their grievances were redressed, as they had not received either Pay, Clothing, or Provisions a Riot had ensued in which an Officer was killed and four wounded The Insurgents had five or six wounded. They collected the Artillery Stores, Wagons, provisions & Marched out of Camp…

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.

I need to just make as much noise and bang on as many doors as possible 'til men are, like, giving you the recognition.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.