Demonstration (protest)

A demonstration or protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause.

Quotes

• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
  • United States Constitution, First Amendment

• Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 20

See also

• Civil disobedience
• Dissent
• Nonviolent resistance
• Rebellion