The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Wendell Phillips
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.
Bobby Seale
The Arab states will not be able to turn their back on the popular pressure to help the Palestinians. They will be forced to pay and support the Palestinian government because the Arab people will move in protest demonstrations in the coming few days.
As'ad Farhat
(The protest) was anything but peaceful.
Colin Campbell
Protesting is really similar to war. If you get the best lick in this time, then you've got to get yours back again and it just goes on and on.
Agin Muhammad
We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
Jose Narosky
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibilityourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander.
Mary Mcleod Bethune
A pylon in the garden means cancer in the house. It's not just because this is my home that I am protesting. I want to protect everyone's homes.
Kenny Logan
I am trying to end the war. I was here protesting before the war. It didn't do much good then; maybe it will do some good now.
Judy Miller
Iran's withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty would be a protest against America and its allies' blackmail.
Hossein Shariatmadari
It's certainly perfectly understandable to feel very strongly about abortion and even to organize and protest and try to educate and change the laws or whatever, but that's a very different thing than shooting a doctor in a parking lot.
Charles Kimball
Our intent is to mount a protest drive along those streets that our president will not allow us to march on.
Vuk Draskovic
We were protesting and some of us were throwing stones at the soldiers. Suddenly, the soldiers fired shots at us. One of my friends was killed instantly.
Gangadhar Baral
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
We will retain the right to protest, and will ask the Security Council to investigate the truth ... about this factory.
Omar El bashir
Intelligent people would save their protest for the ballot.
Georgina Beyer
I think it's important we have protest, and civil disobedience is a great American tradition, but we need to do it in a constructive manner, and we need to do it on a non-school day if you're a student.
Domingo Garcia
The protest has put serious pressure on the government. But it has not reached the point where the government will collapse.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Our protest is understood widely in Austria, especially in Upper Austria ? and policemen are not an exception.
Roland Egger
The aim of this protest is to demand clarity of our fate.
Gastao Salsinha
We are holding a sit-in to protest the neglect shown to us by the government.
Irshad Ahmed
We are asking people not to go to school, or work, or shopping and instead to go out and protest against the racist and inhumane measures in this bill.
Nativo Lopez
I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
I didn't want to be a f***ing pop star. I wanted to be a protest singer.
Sinead O'connor
If anyone goes beyond the boundaries of peaceful protest and in any way causes disorder in this community, we will be completely prepared to take action.
Alex Penelas
If they would give us a half-hour one day next week, we would call off the protest.
Paul Vogel
This is a peaceful protest ... the government must listen to us.
Nitin Jadhav
There's a romanticizing of the '60s, an inclination to protest, among today's youth.
Nancy Snow
I'm protesting the ... law. We work for you guys and you're trying to kick us out.
Ivan Perez
We have successfully organized this protest that was held peacefully and without any incidents.
Sondhi Limthongkul
We're not going to engage in some sensational, high-profile protest. We've satisfied ourselves [the film is] not illegal. ... There's no legal basis to stop it.
Tim Danson
They said they were carrying out this act to protest at the incidents in the southeast in recent days.
Celalettin Cerrah
The government has to admit, in light of yesterday's protest, that this reform cannot be implemented in its current form.
Bernard Thibault
Education comes first before protesting.
David Lujan
The government has cracked down on us to foil our planned protest. Police have so far arrested up to 1,000 opposition members who have been mobilizing supporters to come to join the rally in Dhaka.
Abdul Jalil
This is a peaceful protest.
John Sutton
There is some good news in that the financial impacts on the district won't be as severe as if the protest would have taken place earlier in the year.
Hilary Mclean
We are trying to show the historical continuity of Latino protest against the exploitation of other Latinos in U.S. wars of aggression.
Jorge Mariscal
We're definitely approaching the Texas model. We just had an execution a month ago. And I'll be back at San Quentin on Monday night [January 16], unless the Supreme Court intervenes, to protest the execution of Clarence Ray Allen. And then Michael Morales will be either next month or March.
Barbara Becnel
I just hope if any of those folks are illegal that they realize there are millions that immigrate properly and legally and they don't have to protest.
Mark Aaron
People protesting the closure don't live in the area.
Deborah Smith
This charter amendment will bring Austin to the forefront of a national movement for accessible, online government and participatory democracy. Information that is critical to your everyday life -- whether you want to build a garage apartment or protest the next big tax giveaway -- will go online in the next year. This will save you time and the city money.
Kathy Mitchell
Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.
Marilyn Miller
The concern is that the protest will lead to violence, which will hinder the government's efforts to cut subsidies and the budget gap. That is weighing on the currency.
Osamu Takashima
We are not here to protest Radio City Music Hall. They are victims of deception of the Chinese communist regime.
Levi Browde
They are just doing their job. They were sent there to do that, and it just makes it that much harder for them to do that knowing that people back here are protesting it.
Kathy Buckley
This is not a mass protest. We don't pretend to represent anyone. We just want to denounce the huge trade barriers that are detrimental to everyone.
Julian Morris
The idea is to protest things that the administration is doing that are contrary to the Constitution. The problem with the current administration, that I see, is an increase in encroachment on our rights.
Joanne Devoe
It is against our cultural, social and religious norms. We will protest if they hold it.
Liaquat Baluch
What is occurring is a preparation not for a peaceful protest ... but for an act of provocation against law enforcement bodies to incite the use of force with the aim of causing chaos and confusion and seizing power.
Stepan Sukhorenko
My seat will be empty. I'm non-violently protesting.
Megan Challender
This is ridiculous. If they are legal, they have a right to protest. But if they're not, they should be arrested and deported right now. But the police are just standing there watching.
Jeff Jensen
The people have shown that they are against his impeachment...it is a protest vote.
Mustafa Hussein
Inmates began rioting ... to protest the transfer of the two inmates.
Nasser Jawdeh
There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. There aren't that many people protesting or making a big fuss. But our State Department and the media -- if you're a Westerner -- will make a big fuss.
Dick Atkins
People have the right to bury their family members in peace. I find it repugnant that anybody would protest the funeral of a soldier.
Sen. Jean Schodorf
This is not the typical rally. It's more like a parade than a protest.
Larry Mckinnon
It was a very peaceful protest.
Margie Long
We will start a peaceful protest ... tomorrow, ... It will be the start of continual protests until the election is overturned.
Ali Kerimli
Such a condemnation should be considered a high-profile protest which is not merely describing anger of one Muslim country, but many Muslim countries in the world.
Yuri Thamrin
One can only assume what is causing concern is his protesting and his activism, which is a significant worry for the rest of us if people who are involved in nonviolent, political dissent are being deported.
Marika Dias
When I used to protest against the ill treatment they beat me on my back.
Isma Mahmood
Basically, I woke up one morning and there was this new form of protest.
Greg Lukianoff
Kennedy is a good school and that's why we're all here protesting, because Kennedy is an amazing school, only problem is it's on the verge of being a bad one. We're complaining to the board of education to do something.
Ibtesam Nasser Saleh
I think if the whole community rose up in protest, it would still happen.
Ronald Smith
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
Cesare Pavese
For private employers, there is normally no special First Amendment right to get out of work to engage in a protest. A company might decide that it's good for morale to accommodate the exercise of freedom of speech on an issue that is very important to people, but that's an employment judgment not law.
Rodney A. Smolla
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is understandable that an agency like FAO could be, in some people's minds, an object of protest.
Nick Parsons
Coverage of the border has now been reduced to the vigilantes coming to the border and those who protest against them.
Christian Ramirez
It's one thing to monitor protests and protest organizers, but quite another thing to refer them to your counterterrorism unit.
Leslie Cagan
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It only takes one protest to trigger a hearing, but I think they have two protests filed against them. (I) don't know the nature of what those protests are at this point.
Danny Brazell
Protest voters have been inspired, they have seen that there is an alternative (to Lukashenko).
Valery Karbalevich
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
Camille Paglia
Not only did they not shut down the protest, but it's grown larger and stronger.
Chris Reid
Don't waste your vote on small protest parties. Opposition is a luxury.
Kaizer Mohau
These issues are extremely important for the broad Israeli population, and those who choose not to vote are registering a protest against both candidates -- not necessarily fatigue.
Gerald Steinberg
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
To hear Dave protest his innocence, and to see it fall on deaf ears, was very difficult after we've spent three or four years of our lives defending him.
Katharine Liell
We will go to colleges, card and gift shops and every corner of Delhi to protest it in any form. We will burn Valentine's Day cards depicting obscenity.
Jai Bhagwan Goyal
You are not going to protest at a funeral of a dead Marine. No way. Their God is not my God.
Larry Carter
The environmental movement and the prize winners are becoming more sophisticated. It's not just about protesting anymore. It's about creating new laws or working with governments so they uphold the laws that are already on the books.
Lorrae Rominger
As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).
Clive Stafford Smith
We will continue to protest until all American troops are not sent back from Pakistan, until parliament is made sovereign and until an independent election commission is constituted.
Shahid Shamsi
We aren't protesting Home Depot and Wal-Mart, just the (city's) weak ordinance, ... It's criminal. This is (City Planner) Sam Jones' baby. He wrote 27 pages of the tree protection ordinance and this is what we got.
Alice White
It is pure Kafka to illegally throw a man in jail on charges of nothing and then make it impossible for him to protest the illegality.
John Moustakas
We were peacefully protesting when the UN started shooting.
Walrick Michel
It (the protest) has grown larger and stronger. They feel vindicated, that they have done the right thing.
Christopher Reid
The left, old-line media will absolutely cover the peace protest in Washington, D.C.. We are going to deliver how the rest of America perceives the war.
Melanie Morgan
Are your rights to protest more important than my rights to grieve?
Julie Mackenzie
Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
The Talmud
[But the film] wasn't designed specifically to be a political statement, ... I didn't make the film as a protest.
Nick Clooney
This was definitely a statement of protest. It is unusual because it signifies that at least one member of the court believes that the president has exceeded his legal authority.
Scott Silliman
We're here to protest the hypocrisy of the church. To restore confidence and trust of the faithful, there needs to be an apology.
Brendan Fay
It is a nationwide protest. Prayer leaders in their sermons will condemn the sacrilegious act committed by the Danish cartoonists.
Liaquat Baloch
They have collected protest votes, and the votes of people who normally don't vote.
Uwe Andersen
Our Monday protest will have more people joining from the provinces.
Sondhi Limthongkul
If they try to dominate, then we're probably going to see little brushfire rebellions breaking out in parts of Ethiopia, not at a national level, but as a voice of protest at the continuing hold on power of the EPRDF.
Matt Bryden
We will protest against the U.S. policies, especially the inhuman atrocities in Afghanistan and Iraq, a likely invasion of Iran and its continuing support to Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine.
Pushpender Grewal
The protest in 1999 certainly raised the level of discussion that wasn't happening before. It's a valuable thing to bring all these groups together to continue to improve the level of inclusion on highway projects, but we are still not there yet.
Linda Wilson
Historically we have two percent of taxpayers in Sedgwick county protest their valuation.
Chris Morlan
.Surely we would not be a part of any protest that had a partisan or political approach to it.
Danny Roberts
My sense is if any (students) decided to protest, it would be a small percentage. But I can't predict the future.
Alan Sullivan
We are protesting for the sake of Iraq and not for the sake of any party. We want free and genuine elections.
Abdullah Mohammed
The government should not spy on groups engaging in peaceful political protest. The FBI should focus its efforts on actual threats and not target people because of their political views.
Kathleen Taylor
I am sure the ball went in after the hooter sounded, and we have made an official protest.
Asif Bajwa
It is very difficult to prevent violence at a protest where a huge number of people are gathered, especially when they move from one place to another.
Ajirawid Subarnbhesaj
Once you put a guy in a game and he represents his country, he is going to do something that he would normally do in a game on March 20; he is going to do that on March 10. If we get in a position that a guy is not ready, it might get to [where we file a protest]. But it is really their call.
Bill Stoneman
It's my understanding that the person he was going to talk to was busy with student protest.
Grant Madsen
There are a lot of folks around town who I expect will protest.
Tracie Washington
This is a very important protest, with thousands and thousands of citizens defending their freedom ... they are not going to give in to the persecution to which they are subjected.
Angel Acebes
There is always the option for the teams to seek redress, but we will not know that until they lodge a protest with the race committee.
Glenn Bourke
It's a very powerful protest to tell the Bush administration to end the war in Iraq.
Bill Dobbs
There will be no special discipline steps taken against students for participating in this protest.
Phil Kavits
We knew about their protest and had taken precautionary steps.
Manish Agarwal
Everybody has a right to do what these people are doing, that is to protest.
Jim Frazier
The Ethiopian government is violently suppressing any form of protest and punishing suspected opposition supporters.
Peter Takirambudde
There has been no impact of the protest call given by student groups so far with crude oil production going on uninterrupted.
Nripen Bharali
Like any other citizen, they have a right to protest.
Ralph Mazzuca
We're not expecting any type of protest to the extent of the Gary Graham and Karla Faye Tucker executions, ... We've heard rumors that Jesse Jackson plans to be here, but those rumors have not been substantiated.
Michelle Lyons
The prime minister focused only on the (protest against the) drawings in this letter, avoiding to talk about the ambassadors' other grievances.
Marianne Jelved
I pray that your protest will remain peaceful . . . I say to you again, I am innocent. I will answer all the charges and I will prove that I am innocent.
Joseph Estrada
Our only position is that students need to be in school. We are not endorsing the protest.
Joyce Haldeman
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? ... The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
Jay Sekulow
We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.
Andre Cook
Passover has a message for the conscience and the heart of all mankind. For what does it commemorate? It commemorates the deliverance of a people from degrading slavery, from most foul and cruel tyranny. And so, it is Israel's - nay, God's protest against unrighteousness, whether individual or national.
Morris Joseph
The referee?s decision is final. We can write a protest letter, but how will that help? We need to have independent timers like the way we have it in Super four.
Paul Odera
We believe it is a new conspiracy by the United States and its allies to divide Muslims and divert the protest movement in the Muslim world against the blasphemous cartoons.
Liaquat Baloch
We're aware of some individuals who are disappointed with actions that have been taken and have heard rumors of a formal meeting. However, we're not aware of any specific details of a protest.
Chuck Hunter
There is no response from the US on our protest lodged after the missile attack.
Tasnim Aslam
The administration has done nothing and when we are protesting, the police are beating us.
Prakash Singh
The fight has shifted to the the streets. Aquino and the opposition groups have nothing to lose, although it may take some time before they can mount a major protest.
Tony Gatmaitan
I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.
Lotte Lehmann
This is more of a sabotage or quasi-terrorism than a protest. The government will only address their demands once they agree to suspend the protest.
Jose Modesto Apolo
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.
Lillian Smith
As long as you know what the government's trying to do - what you're protesting against - I'm all for it. But you see on the news: The high school and even the middle school kids just skip school.
Chris Garcia
There needs to be more done. What, I'm not sure. (Just) protesting is not doing anything.
Kelly Nichols
Why was he at my home during work hours? The bottom line is that people cannot parade in front of my home in a protest without a permit. Mr. Vasquez did everything wrong.
Hal Turner
The people most affected have to be organized and activated?only a movement of direct action and protest is going to move those who make decisions to do the right thing.
Terence Courtney
We are considering making an official protest about this to the IOC.
Markus Gandler
We're here to protest the budget. We don't have a margin that can support those kinds of cuts.
Maggie Barnes
These are difficult times for us. But, we are continuing to publish our paper as always except on Wednesday due to the protest.
Pradip Phanjoubam
Given the protest and everything, I think people are opening their eyes and paying attention to what is going on. I thought the letters would be a nice follow-up (to the protest).
Susanne Villarreal
That's part of the reason why our community hasn't rushed out to protest. They are afraid of what will happen to them with immigration reform.
Sabiha Khan
It can give a movement like this legs that it wouldn't have had 10 years ago, ... Today, protest is decentralized. You don't have to get 100,000 people marching on Washington. But you can get 10,000 people in 10 different cities rather quickly.
John Horrigan
This is the first protest after the elections, against what happened in the elections -- the forgery and the beatings that occurred.
George Ishak
We have called off the protest for the moment, following the comments by the attorney general.
Ramon Saul Sanchez
Between classes, eight students walked the halls cheering, blocking the hallways, chanting. They were protesting.
Kirk Lewis
The protest was cancelled because, in my opinion, the agreement we had with [GJP] was violated when they sent out a media alert describing an elaborate theatrical event being held, ... We never would have approved an elaborate theatrical event where the Career Fair is going on.
Robert Sherwood
I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.
Charlie Trotter
This is not a correct war. Our priority should have been in Afghanistan and we are fighting war for completely false interests. People don't know or are too apathetic to care. I want to get people to take up the mantle and protest what is going on.
Matt Coleman
They shouldn't protest the funeral for a man who was out there dying to protect the rights that they're demanding they receive.
Marvin Russell
The president living here does not faze me a bit, ... You can endure a lot. It's really a matter of putting on a protest peacefully and respectfully. If these protesters could do that, it'd be fine.
Bob Mcdonald
The strike has been called to protest the illegal arrest of political leaders and for announcing curfews and prohibiting parties to stage peaceful protest in the valley by the state.
Pradeep Nepal
I placed my hand over her mouth and said: 'You have made your protest so please be quiet. She later claimed I swore at her. But I would hardly do that with the mikes on.
Nicholas Witchell
America is crying for a protest against the federal government. We will give them an ultimatum. If they do not act to secure America, we will vote them out of office.
Tim Bueler
That's what (Hill) died for, the right for people to protest. But I don't think a funeral is the right place or context in the way they are protesting. It's not something the family needs to hear, that we're glad your son's dead and that your minister is a whore.
Richard Wilbur
We want them to put a label on the fur that tells exactly how the animals lived and died. If the furs were labeled and consumers could make a choice with all of the information, I think the protest would end.
Matt Rossell
I do not consider violent protest is in any way appropriate before or after attendance at the worship of Almighty God.
Robin Eames
I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there?
Alec Baldwin
In three years of protesting in Hong Kong I have never seen anything like this.
Jason Baker
People are allowed to protest in North Bergen when they get a permit to protest from the police department. There have been other protests in front of my home, but those people filed for permits. But no one told the police of any activity. They didn't know anything about it. You can't protest without a permit.
Hal Turner
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Elie Wiesel
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
Why are we here protesting? Because it's not fair. Americans aren't going to be able to do anything without us. We're the ones who are doing the hard work. We're the farmers. Immigrants are doing the work.
Laura Lopez
This shows exactly what they think of democracy and peoples' right to protest over a war that the overwhelming majority of people in Britain think was wrong.
Lindsey German
The protest will be very important, because it will teach a lesson to politicians and the rest of the United States.
Edward James Olmos
We will be there to protest the government's provocations.
Effi Eitam
'Graves,' he said, 'I want to be your friend.' I started to protest we already were friends, but he said 'No, when I walked in here I wasn't your friend. When I leave here I will be your friend,'.
Earl Graves
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