Protest Speech Quotes

My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.

Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

If you wanna hear what the people are saying, you can hear what the Rastaman saying.

My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Strong language is in the nature of the dialogue between the dispossessed and their possessors …. Words become weapons rather than tools.