Aristotle: Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4167
Rosa Luxemburg: Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4168
George Orwell: As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that Gandhi was very useful to the British government. So he will be to the Japanese if they get there. Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4169
Mahatma Gandhi: An unjust law is itself a species of violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4171
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Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4172
Mahatma Gandhi: What is obtained through violence can only be kept through violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4173
Bertrand Russell: Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4174
Karl Marx: While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, achieving at most the aims already mentioned, it is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far - not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world - that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4175
Charles Eliot Norton: The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4176
First Amendment: Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4177
Henry Steele Commager: Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4178