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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.

    Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken
  • 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.

    "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.
  • We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

    War   Mean   Peaceful  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.67, Beacon Press
  • Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

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

    "The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society" by Naomi Wolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.
  • 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.

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

    Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962
  • We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

    Peace   War   Negative  
  • 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.

    Dream   Kings   Children  
    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • 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.

    Nelson Mandela (1990). “One nation, one country”
  • There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

    "CBS Gives Platform to Russ Feingold to Bash Herman Cain As 'Un-American' For Criticizing 'Occupy Wall Street'". Interview with Matthew Balan, www.newsbusters.org. October 10, 2011.
  • 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 lady doth protest too much, methinks.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]
  • 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.

  • A riot is the language of the unheard.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. (2016). “MLK on "The Other America" and "Black Power"”, p.6, Beacon Press
  • 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.

    Religious   Egypt   Iran  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press
  • 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.

    Spiritual   Law   Unjust  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.71, New Directions Publishing
  • Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

    Dream   Kings   Kids  
  • What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.

    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.

    Twitter post from Apr 30, 2015
  • 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.

    Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
  • I was involved in some peaceful protests.

    "Akin acknowledges arrest at anti-abortion protest from long ago". www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2012.
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