Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 76 Protest quotesProtest QuotesProtest Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men. ~ Gerald W. Johnson To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.~ Soren Kierkegaard Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others.~ Doris Lessing The burning of an author’s books, imprisonment for opinion’s sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.~ Joseph Lewis To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.~ Abraham Lincoln The opposition is indispensable. A good statesmen, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.~ Walter Lippmann ... whenever the Legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence. ... [Power then] devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty, and, by the Establishment of a new Legislative (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own Safety and Security, which is the end for which they are in Society.~ John Locke Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of opinion.~ James Russell Lowell Without general elections, without unrestrained freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution…in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.~ Rosa Luxemburg The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.~ H. L. Mencken Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.~ H. L. Mencken If you stop struggling, then you stop life.~ Huey P. Newton The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life.~ Huey P. Newton You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.~ Huey P. Newton The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.~ Huey P. Newton We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked.~ Huey P. Newton The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.~ Charles Eliot Norton As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.~ J. Robert Oppenheimer If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.~ George Orwell We do not move forward by curtailing people’s liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.~ Eleanor Roosevelt Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print