“Well, if we can't dance, maybe we should just march.”— Leslie Dixon, John Waters, Tracy Turnblad, Nikki Blonsky, imdb.com
“This is the Academy Awards of protests and as far as I'm concerned it's an honor just to be nominated.”— Aaron Sorkin, Lee Weiner, Noah Robbins, imdb.com
“So when you ask whether today’s protests will ever lead to anything, the answer is probably not. They have little positive content. My concern is that they might lead to nothing – to a politics of righteous annihilation and a society lobotomized of all memory.”— Martin Gurri, thepullrequest.com
“Watch 13th. Better yet, get a group of friends together and watch 13th.”— Corinne Shutack, F Jones, theoklahomaeagle.net
“But the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels.”— Barack Obama, Medium, medium.com
“Cut to: the jerseys being turned inside out. It was only the team’s latest act of expert protest.”— Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, vogue.com
“I love activists. I love protest. I’m a punk. My music when I was growing up was punk. Hackers are punk.”— Jack Dorsey, rollingstone.com
“Fine. But in protest, I'm walking over there extremely slowly!”— Laura McCreary, Jake Peralta, Andy Samberg, imdb.com
“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, en.wikiquote.org
“When he said he was going to stop the march and called it a hate march, I think that was very provocative. The Mayor's statements have created a climate that could possibly lead to some kind of confrontation.”— Al Sharpton, en.wikiquote.org
“I was in despair. Deep despair, I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad. I formalized the drawing into a line and put a circle round it. It was ridiculous at first and s…”— Gerald Holtom, amazon.com
“The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.”— Ron Paul, campaignforliberty.org
“Something in my soul was rising, rising, ceaselessly, painfully, and refused to be still.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“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, nobelprize.org
“There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality. There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards.”— Colin Kaepernick, espn.com
“Yes. I'll continue to sit. I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. To me, this is something that has to change. When there's significant change and I feel like that flag represents what it's supposed to represent, this country is representing people the way that it's…”— Colin Kaepernick, espn.com