#protest

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#advocacy #protest #help

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#fine #grandfather #me #minister #people

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. ↗

— John Bright

#catholic #episcopalian #i #i am #irishman

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. ↗

— Bob Filner

#change #committed #continue #courage #determination

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#always #catholic #caused #completely #date

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest. ↗

— Bob Gibson

#filled #find #hate #i #prejudice

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#demonstration #each #family #funeral #loved

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#before #belle #fault #feel #greatly

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness