Silent Protest Quotes

My voice is still [i.e. silent] for war.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

Stanley Hudson was the embodiment of many workers in America, both male and female. Creating the nuances of the character was fun and challenging in that much of his very being was grounded in his ability to editorialize any given situation, much of the time without uttering a single word.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer - in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

Strike, if you will, but listen.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

Sometimes the biggest statements you can make are by living something out.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Certainly there are many Congress members who have been arrested in the past on immigration issues and will continue to because we all understand that staying silent is not an option.

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

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

I think I've always had an activist stance, yet at the same time, the other side of me - and this is where some people just don't get it, or they'd prefer it if the work was a lot uglier, a lot louder - I have this personality where I just want to put something out that's a fact and then let you interpret it. It's almost as if you might barely notice it, you might walk right by it, but you have to pay attention.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

When they remain silent, they cry out.

the mute protest in your own bones

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.