Protest

A protest is a gesture of disapproval or dissent.

Quotes

• Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope. But the corporate media ignores and ridicules grassroots activists who speak out. Concerned citizens are thus left wondering: Where are the millions marching in the streets to defend human rights, civil liberties, and racial justice? Where is the mass revulsion against the killing and torture being carried out in our name? Where are the environmentalists? Where is the peace movement?
  • Amy Goodman Conclusion, Standing Up To the Madness: Ordinary Heroes In Extraordinary Times with David Goodman (2008)

• Agitate, agitate, agitate.
  • William Lamb. In Torrens, Life of Lord Melbourne, Volume I, p. 320, and in Walpole's History of England from Conclusion of the Great War, Volume III, p. 143.

• The exclusive pretension made by a part of the truth to be the whole, must and ought to be protested against.
  • John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1895), Chapter 2, p. 93

• In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty.
  • Phil Ochs, Pleasures of the Harbor (1967)

• I quietly hung up the phone. There was no point in me protesting.
  • Sanu Sharma, Uhrin

• Elie Wiesel warned us that there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
  • Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
  • Alfred North Whitehead, “The Aims of Education,” Presidential address to the Mathematical Association of England, 1916

See also

• Activism
• Demonstration
• Dissent