These protests and activism quotes show the importance of making your voice heard.
Throughout history, protesting has been used as a way to push penting ubahs to be made.
Protests played have played a part in the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Rights Movement, and LGBT Right’s Movement.
And while some penting progress has been made in the world over the years, there is still work to be done.
Protests and activism are a few ways that orang try to build awareness around penting causes.
They can help bring much-needed attention to conversations and ubahs that need to happen around the country and world.
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1. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must jangan pernah be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel
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2. “To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
3. “You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.” – Eldridge Cleaver
4. “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” – Malala Yousafzai
5. “I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don’t align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to ubah them.” – Shepard Fairey
6. “Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting masa depan generations.” – Steven Magee
7. “Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.” – Barack Obama
8. “Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to ubah the world.” – Dolores Huerta
9. “Most activism is brought about by us ordinary orang.” – Patricia Hill Collins
10. “To the wrongs that need resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the masa depan in the distance, give yourselves.” – Carrie Chapman Catt
11. “Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
12. “You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.” – Bobby Seale
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13. “Imagine all the orang living kehidupan in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.” – John Lennon
14. “We have freedom of speech. We are able to hold hands in protest and stand up for what we believe in and have orang hear what you have to say.” – Randy Orton
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15. “It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.” – Billy Graham
16. “Not everything that is faced can be ubahd, but nothing can be ubahd until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
17. “Even the tiny protests help.” – Patsy Mink
18. “This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.” – Nikki Haley
19. “I think there’s a weapon of cynicism to say, ‘Protest doesn’t work. Organizing doesn’t work. Y’all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn’t do anything.’ because, frankly, it’s said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political ubah.” – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
20. “I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is ubah.” – DeRay Mckesson
21. “Education is the most kuat weapon which you can use to ubah the world.” – Nelson Mandela
22. “orang might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can’t feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.” – Marcus Samuelsson
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23. “Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedo rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of kehidupan as the way of living.” – John Lewis
24. “Protesting is jangan pernah a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace.” – Bryant McGill
25. “If orang want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so.” – Keith Ellison
26. “Give light and orang will find the way.” – Ella Baker
27. “If protesting, do no harm to dirimu or others. Peaceful protest is more effective when creating real ubah. Peaceful protest wins over the hearts and minds of the majority. That majority continues to grow. It is like sunlight and water for your garden.” – Leland Lewis
28. “Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and orangs.” – Rigoberta Menchu
29. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. selalu remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to ubah the world.” – Harriet Tubman
30. “Protesting oftentimes takes a stance of offense; a form of violence that may not selalu be physical but is a form of violence all the same. Everyone has the right to be heard, but only if they are willing to really listen to others in an attempt to understand.” – Eric Overby
31. “We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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32. “Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” – Cesar Chave
33. “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common kehidupan.” – Jane Addams
34. “There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history, or nothing happens.” – Coretta Scott King
35. “Protest is telling the truth in public. Sometimes protest is telling the truth to a public that isn’t quite ready to hear it. Protest is, in its own way, storytelling. We use our bodies, our words, our art, and our sounds both to tell the truth about the pain that we endure and to demand the justice that we know is possible. It is meant to build and to force a response.” – DeRay Mckesson
36. “No one will do for you what you need to do for dirimu. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.” – Dorothy Height
37. “Wherever women gather together kegagalan is impossible.” – Susan B. Anthony
38. “We build the path as we can, rock by rock.” – Hosea Williams
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39. “I don’t think there’s any perfect way to protest.” – Megan Rapinoe
40. “Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.” – Michael Leunig
41. “I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.” – DeRay Mckesson
42. “A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.” – Ramsey Clark
43. “We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.” – Lucretia Mott
44. “I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformation ubah, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.” – DeRay Mckesson
45. “In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it’s only good if they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you.” – Auliq Ice
46. “I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, no matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a masa depan for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a masa depan for our children.” – Afeni Shakur
47. “It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
48. “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.” – Bayard Rustin
49. “I have pelajaried over the years that when one’s mind s made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
50. “If you’re able to protest, protest. If you’re able to volunteer, volunteer.” – Ad-Rock
51. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Fran
52. Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” – Howard Zinn
53. A patriot must selalu be ready to defend his country against his government.” – Edward Abbey
54. “Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.” – Albert Camus
55. “Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.” – Bob Marley
56. “It is not selalu the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” – Aristotle
57. “If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.” – Albert Einstein
58. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” – Mahatma Gandhi
59. “The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping orang around specific goals. You have to wake the orang up first, then you’ll get action.” – Malcolm X
60. “Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it selalu has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.” ― Sharon Gannon
61. “Obviously these are some exceptional young orang, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary orang who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make kehidupan better for other orang—and they have.” ― Morgan Carroll
62. “All struggles against oppression in the modern world begin by redefining what had previously been considered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.” ― Seyla Benhabib
63. “You can’t tiptoe toward justice. You can’t walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone’s home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in.” ― Daniel José Older
64. “If you don’t challenge things, all you have done is passed it on to the next woman to deal with.” ― Julia beraty
65. “No justice movement in history would have been kesuksesanful if it had tailored its language to the oppressors.” ― Alex J. O’Connor
66. “What I used to say to orang, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can’t be apolitical. It will come and get you. It’s not that you shouldn’t be neutral. It’s that you won’t be able to stay neutral.” ― Christopher Hitchens
67. “To spend one’s kehidupan being angry, and in the process doing nothing to ubah 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 Fuller
68. “Your politics are so far right, they’re wrong.” ― Harry Whitewolf
69. “Fools multiply when wise men are silent.” ― Nelson Mandela
70. “An activist is one who is actively involved in creating a community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.” ― Jasmine Guy
71. “You just have to find your activism and don’t let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you’re doing the work, and you’re getting someone to think, you’re on the right path.” ― Angie Thomas
72. “Activism has been very productive in our society.” ― Anthony Fauci
73. “Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.” ― Bono
74. “I believe activism is the true source of ubah in the world. Pushing to ubah social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting ubah.” ― Marley Dias
75. “I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by orang who were activists.” ― Pearl Cleage
76. “One individual cannot possibly make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference—all the difference in the world!” ― Jane Goodall
77. “Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you’re supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.” ― Studs Terkel
78. “You have to be secure in dirimu to engage and challenge the mainstream.” ― Anne Poelina
79. “Being an activist is about getting things done. It’s not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.” ― Christine Quinn
80. “The line between activism and terrorism is so thin that if you scratch the surface of all the activists, you’ll end up discovering more terrorists than actual reformers.” ― Abhijit Naskar
81. “Fighting hate should be fun. It’s being a hater that sucks.” ― Loretta J. Ross
82. “Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.” ― Janisse Ray
83. “Reform is just another name for responsibility.” ― Abhijit Naskar
84. “You ultimately decide, every day, whether or not your kehidupan will speak on behalf of the oppressed, or remain an inaudible but decisive tool for the status quo.” ― Lisa Kemmerer
85. “Recognizing the transformative power wielded by activists does not deny the obstacles that they can sometimes present for policy making.” ― Tom C.W. Lin
86. “Just as humans are neither all good nor all bad, their institutional and collective efforts at capitalism and activism are neither all good nor all bad.” ― Tom C.W. Lin
87. “To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.” ― Germany Kent
88. “If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed.” ― David Hackworth
89. “You have to do it.” ― Eric Rofes
What can you do to bring attention and awareness to the ubahs that need to happen in our world to improve it for everyone?
Finding a way to make your voice heard may be a first step for you.
Joining together in peaceful protests can shed light on crucial issues and problems that need to be addressed as Martin Luther King Jr. showed the world.
While you may not feel like one person can make a difference, joining together with others create ubah and a positive, lasting impact on the world around you.
Speaking up can be one of the greatest contributions that you can make to the world.
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