Natalie Merchant: There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, "I disagree." We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect President. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4193

Barbara Ehrenreich: No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4194

Jacob Bronowski: Dissent is the mark of freedom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4195

Wendell Phillips: Revolutions never go backwards. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4196

Lewis F. Korns: The history of the human race always has been, and most likely always will be, that of evolution and revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4197

Edward Counsel: A constitution imperilled justifies revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4198

John Adams: As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected ... before a drop of blood was shed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4199

Muhammad Ali: Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4200