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Subdued celebrations hold a quiet power; they transform ordinary moments into powerful stories, inviting shared intimacy over boisterous splendor.
Author:
Liana Novak
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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.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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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.
Author:
Ellen Wilkinson
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
Author:
Walter Ulbricht
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The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
Author:
Gregor Strasser
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In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.
Author:
Martha Smith
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There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.
Author:
Martha Smith
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There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
Author:
Martha Smith
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Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Author:
Lillian Smith
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Author:
Nina Simone
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The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
Author:
Jenny Shipley
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.
Author:
Rose Schneiderman
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
Author:
Bob Schaffer
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Author:
Bayard Rustin
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When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
Author:
Mo Rocca
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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.
Author:
John Redmond
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.
Author:
Tom Paulin
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Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
Author:
Peter O'Toole
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In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
Author:
Phil Ochs
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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.
Author:
Graham Nash
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Author:
Lewis Mumford
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We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Author:
Robert Mugabe
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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
Author:
Mary Moore
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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.
Author:
Mark Lloyd
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.
Author:
Karl Liebknecht
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I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.
Author:
Lotte Lehmann
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Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
Author:
William King
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The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
Author:
Aly Khan
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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
Author:
John Kerry
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I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
Author:
Philip Kearny
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Author:
Garry Kasparov
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I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
Author:
Robert Indiana
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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.
Author:
John Hood
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Author:
Alexander Herzen
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I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.
Author:
Chico Hamilton
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I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.
Author:
George Grosz
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The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.
Author:
Julien Green
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It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.
Author:
Margaret Fuller
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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.
Author:
Betty Friedan
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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.
Author:
Bob Filner
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
Author:
William Douglas
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I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
Author:
Marjory Douglas
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We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.
Author:
Timothy Dolan
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
Author:
Caleb Cushing
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I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
Author:
Billy Corgan
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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.
Author:
Steve Buyer
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It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
Author:
Craig Bruce
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It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
Author:
Michael Bloomberg
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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
Author:
John Bernal
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I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.
Author:
Pierre Bayle
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In the hush between spoken thoughts lies the anointing quietude of empathy, where understanding wills the unsaid into being.
Author:
Clara Sonnet
