Protests

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PROTESTS: First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you . . . and you win. (Unknown Source)

PROTESTS: There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. (Unknown Source)

PROTESTS: I would rather die standing in resistance than begging on my knees! (Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

PROTESTS: Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich, U.S. journalist, activist, and author, Born 1941)

PROTESTS: A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking. (Will Rogers, U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

PROTESTS: 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, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)

PROTESTS: First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you . . . and you win. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PROTESTS: It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. (Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

PROTESTS: Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones. (Jose Marti, Cuban revolutionary, journalist, and poet, 1853-1895)

PROTESTS: What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but 'who is sitting in' -and 'who is marching' outside the White House, pushing for change. (Howard Zinn, U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)