Peaceful Protest Quotes

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

I worry that a Trump presidency doesn't show the true face of America to the world, but I think that peaceful protest all around this country, it showed to the world who we really are.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.

What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.

I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

Technology is the penultimate chameleon, taking on the characteristics of its handler. In some hands technology is a tool of treachery, while in others it morphs into a peaceful protest. In still others, it represents the bleeding edge of freedom.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.