An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: activism dissent protest civil-disobedience
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mahatma GandhiTags: activism dissent protest truth-telling complicity
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxTags: acquiescence activism justice protest free-speech principles
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara EhrenreichTags: activism patriotism dissent protest truth-telling
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 FullerSo exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.
Laura KipnisThe strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
Emma GoldmanTags: dissent protest independent-thought
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]
Tags: protest revolution violence peacefulness political-rights
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt CobainTags: inspirational activism dissent protest truth-telling
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil GaimanTags: power protest truth-telling
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