“To sin by silence when they should protest
makes cowards of men.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice
to the act.” ~ The Talmud
“The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man;
it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that
produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the
destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to
think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.” ~ William Orville Douglas
“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made
war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much
surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who
gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.” ~ H.G.
Wells
“Protest that endures...is moved by a hope far more modest
than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's
own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.” ~ Wendell Berry
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” -
Leonardo da Vinci
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who
profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops
without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” - Frederick
Douglass
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice,
fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of
eternal peace.” ~ Dwight David
Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States
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