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
Vaclav Havel: Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4201
Martin Luther King, Jr.: We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4202
Edward R. Murrow: We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4203
Emmeline Pankhurst: We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4204
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Camus: The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4206
Marcus Tullius Cicero: Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4207