“ To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. ”
- Alfred de Musset- Copy
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“ I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause. ”
- Jose Narosky- Copy
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“ Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. - William James. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ We are here to protest Britain's role in sending us to the U.N. Security Council. We must defend our right to nuclear technology. ”
- Mohammad Ali- Copy
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“ Be not discouraged. There is a future for you.... The resistance encountered now predicates hope.... Only as we rise... do we encounter opposition. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
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“ They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen. ”
- Valentina Tereshkova- Copy
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“ The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth.... But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth. ”
- Lord Darling- Copy
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“ I believe we should show some support but I also agree with the church's way of going about it, instead of having to go out and protest. It's just not necessary. ”
- Juan Ruiz- Copy
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“ When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ That hatred springs more from self-contempt than from a legitimate grievance is seen in the intimate connection between hatred and a guilty conscience. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. ”
- Robert Mugabe- Copy
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“ Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. If you protest, my friend, wait till you arrive there yourself! ”
- William James- Copy
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“ If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything…that smacks of discrimination or slander. ”
- Mary McLeod Bethune- Copy
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“ That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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“ I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
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“ The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'. ”
- Ray Bradbury- Copy
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“ It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual? ”
- Dame Ethel Smyth- Copy
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“ The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet themes in American advertising, lodged an official protest this week against the Ford Motor Company's new campaign: 'Hey you stinking fat Russian, get off my Ford Escort.'. ”
- Dennis Miller- Copy
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“ This process of self-censorship is ubiquitous and that those who do it believe that they are doing the right thing. That they call it "sensitivity" and "fairness" review without realizing that they are censoring to placate pressure groups, or in anticipation of protests. ”
- Diane Ravitch- Copy
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“ The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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