#protest

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#career #comedian #did #got #great

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#against #cooperating #evil #helps #involved

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#both #courage #i #includes #just

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#angst #big #emotion #lack #positive

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing. ↗

— David Selby

#because #had #hung #i #i wish

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#civil #civil disobedience #disobedience #first #justice

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#after #anger #another #another way #because