#protest

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#does #empower #enrich #freedom #further

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #being #conduct #errors #fighting

To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make? ↗

— Charles Fuller

#activism #protest #change

We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#activism #inspirational #philosophy #protest #social-change

‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest. ↗

— Elsa Tamez

#dissent #faith #god #protest #faith

Never mind. Bye, Carmen. Don't go out and get radical or anything." THE PINATA-MAKER'S DAUGHTER ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#protest-movements #relationships #relationship

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery. ↗

— Douglas Coop

#charisma #civil-disobedience #loaded-language #power #propaganda

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

— Karen Bass

#community #elected #front #i #know

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. ↗

— Tony Blair

#because #bought #dad #especially #family

I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#answer #been #constantly #fortunate #hit