#protest

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#agreed #beijing #bunch #glad #happening

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#buzz #carry #ethic #feeling #getting

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#around #comes #eventually #just #life

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#black #catholic #color #entertain #entertainers

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#been #case #going #make #out

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#against #because #build #business #committed

If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely. ↗

— Vano Merabishvili

#expressing #freely #impede #intervene #lives

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#only #protest #such #times #true

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#assembled #binding #denied #denies #either

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#catch #catholic #church #feed #jews