The 80 best protest phrases

Protests are generally the last resort of a marginalized or oppressed society that needs to express its needs in order to cry out for an effective solution.

Thanks to these demonstrations, history has progressed and many groups have been able to translate their interests into political and social changes.

In this article we will review the best protest phrases, commented.

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The most memorable protest phrases

To remind us of the struggles and achievements through the rebellions, we bring a compilation with the best protest phrases.

1. A person has the right to protest and the State must protect his life, whatever the nature of the protest. (Pablo Milanés)

Protest is a right of expression.

2. Because anyone who is an inch above us is an enemy. (Ricardo Flores Magón)

A reflection on social inequalities.

3. When an individual is protesting against society's refusal to recognize his dignity as a human being, his act of protest confers dignity on him. (Bayard Rustin)

Many protests are a sign of the lack of basic resources.

4. The heart is so fascinating and noble worker that in its work it makes a single protest, science calls it cardiac arrest.

Even our body protests when we are not taking care of it.

5. A feminist person is anyone who recognizes equality and full humanity in women and men. (Gloria Steinem)

The real goal behind feminism.

6. You have the right to freely express everything that you are allowed to say. (Roger Wolfe)

One thing is freedom of expression and another is to insult everyone with hatred.

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7. Many of us can die, but hopefully we can create a better world.

What need is there to always remain in meaningless conflicts?

8. Society has simply become the new divinity before which it protests and asks for reparation if it does not meet the expectations it has created. (Friedrich August von Hayek)

Society also needs to move forward.

9. Rebellion is man's original virtue. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

A virtue that we must take advantage of when necessary and only for noble purposes.

10. The protest of the poor listens to God, but it does not reach the ear of man. (Félicité Robert de Lamennais)

There are governments that only watch over the welfare of their promoters.

11. I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I have been close to him for that reason. (Elie Wiesel)

Sometimes it is necessary to protest against something and then reconcile.

12. Rebellion is the only refuge worthy of intelligence in the face of imbecility. (Arturo Pérez-Reverte)

Seeking our own knowledge can be an act of protest.

13. We don't know our true height until we stand up. (Emily Dickinson)

We tend to underestimate ourselves, until we try.

14. There is no barrier, lock or bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind. (Virginia Woolf)

Never let anyone limit your ideas.

15. Do you protest like a citizen or shut up like a subject? (Nach)

Choices that we must sometimes make.

16. The spirit of reconstruction arises from the deep instinct of the human being as a realistic protest and as a symbol of his will to live. (Alvar Aalto)

Change is always necessary.

17. Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. (Marcel Duchamp)

Even in art there were revolutions.

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18. Social protest is delegitimized when fear and violence are used to claim rights to screw up the rest of the people. (Luis Gabriel Carrillo Navas)

No protest should violate the rights of innocent people.

19. If they give you a lined paper, write on the back. (Juan Ramón Jiménez)

Why comply with standards that do not represent us?

20. The bravest act is still thinking for yourself. Aloud. (Coco Chanel)

Raise your voice at all times.

21. Thanks to freedom of expression, today it is already possible to say that a ruler is useless without anything happening to us. The ruler either. (Jaume Perich)

A sad reality. Although that should not be an invitation to shut up.

22. The rebellion consists of looking at a rose until the eyes are pulverized. (Alejandra Pizarnik)

Look at beauty where others don't believe it exists.

23. To rebel is to give light and shape to the cry of new ideas. (Joe Ar)

A protest can be an opportunity for other people.

24. To protest is to refuse to be reduced to zero and to be silenced. (John Berger)

A rebellion constitutes the right to be heard.

25. Protests are part of our democracy. (Michel Temer)

In fact, they are an essential part of it.

26. He who does not move does not hear the noise of his chains.

If you don't step out of your comfort zone, how do you hope to get ahead?

27. There is no feminine thought. The brain is not a sexual organ. (Charlotte Perkins)

Your thoughts are genderless, deconstruct those ideas.

28. Let nothing limit us. Let nothing define us. Let nothing hold us down Let freedom be our own substance. (Simone de Beauvoir)

Freedom must be our right and ultimate goal.

29. I cry that I don't believe in anything and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt my cry and I need, at least, to believe my protest. (Albert Camus)

Believe in your convictions.

30. The main thing about a protest is not that it is a sacrifice made in pursuit of a fairer alternative future. (John Berger)

A protest must always have a purpose.

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31. I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in fashion, but I have done a lot. (Robert Indiana)

The art contains numerous protests hidden in its paintings.

32. I protest because I am convinced, not to convince. (Angel Crespo)

You never have to convince others to have the same ideas as us.

33. I am not accepting the things that I cannot change, I am changing the things that I cannot accept. (Angela Davis)

The change we all should make.

34. In a truly free state, thought and speech must be free. (Suetonius)

Without a state enacting freedom, it must be absolute.

35. When you are young, it is easy to get upset and complain about many things, but then you realize that if you manage to control yourself it causes less problems. (Sōseki Natsume)

Sometimes our disagreement is just irrational personal discontent.

36. Protest, against what? Against everything. (Dámaso Alonso)

Against everything that does not allow you to grow.

37. Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender. (Keith Ellison)

Not voting is giving away your surrender.

38. I don't like a young man who does not protest, the young man has the illusion of utopia and utopia is not always bad. (Pope Francisco)

Protests often arise from disgruntled youth.

39. There are few weapons in the world as powerful as a girl with a book in her hand. (Malala Yousafzai)

In a world where women have no right, educating them is rebellious.

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40. Freedom is always freedom for those who think differently. (Rosa Luxemburg)

Freedom is a space to express ourselves as we are without fear.

41. Nobody listens to you if you don't protest. (The chojin)

Sometimes you have to raise your voice fiercely to be heard.

42. Contrary to the usual pattern, I have gradually become more rebellious as I get older. (Bertrand Russell)

Never allow yourself to believe that you are too old to do anything you want.

43. Seeking happiness in this life, therein lies the true spirit of rebellion. (Katherine Pancol)

Seek your happiness, even if no one agrees with your dreams.

44. What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible weathering of life? (Aldous Huxley)

Works of art are the highest expression of opinion.

45. Through disobedience and rebellion progress has been made. (Oscar Wilde)

Progress is when we challenge restrictive traditions.

46. Freedom of expression is saying what people don't want to hear. (George Orwell)

That is a form of manipulation and blackmail.

47. Why would a child have to endure an escrache at the door of his house? (Felipe González)

Rebelling against families can be the first step to achieving that desired future.

48. It is not suffering, but the hope for better things that incites rebellions. (Eric Hoffer)

A rebellion is made up of hope.

49. I'm like a one-woman protest machine. (Lydia Lunch)

You have all the tools to get ahead.

50. Oppressed men, it is a tragedy. Oppressed women, it is tradition. (Letty Cottin)

It is necessary that the world also recognize women's struggles.

51. Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the root of human nature, and the mother of truth. (Liu Xiaobo)

Without freedom of speech, we are slaves to the cover-up.

52. As long as the world exists, there will be injustices. And if no one objected and no one rebelled, those injustices would last forever. (Clarence Darrow)

Injustices need to be exposed.

53. I am in favor of meetings and protests, but phrases of their manifestos such as "we distrust the entire political class" do not convince me. Who do they turn to when they ask for a decent life? (Ricardo Flores Magón)

So how will a country be run?

54. Passivity and meekness do not imply goodness, just as rebellion does not mean savagery. (Praxedis G. Warrior)

Ideas with different meanings than the one attributed to them.

55. Someday the anvil, tired of being an anvil, will become a hammer. (Mikhail Bakunin)

It is in exhaustion that people are motivated to rebel.

56. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much more freedom we would have to be ourselves, if we did not have the weight of gender expectations. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

The world can be a better place if we all respect each other.

57. Society does not tolerate private affairs if they show signs of rebellion. (Sándor Márai)

For a selfish 'good society', there cannot be a different way of acting or thinking other than the traditional one.

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58. Thinking against the current of time is heroic; say it, crazy. (Eugene Ionesco)

There will always be ways of thinking that are controversial to the norm.

59. Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition of almost any other form of freedom. (Benjamin Cardozo)

Freedom of expression is what opens the way to other types of freedoms.

60. Killing freedom of expression is insulting human rights, it is repressing human nature and suppressing the truth. (Liu Xiaobo)

When there is no freedom of opinion, then the rest of the freedoms are imprisoned.

61. Freedom is also a part of the protest. (Andrew Whitworth)

We protest for freedom.

62. Writing is also a form of protest. Almost all writers share the unease with the world. (Ana Maria Matute)

Many writers have the ability to rebel in their writing.

63. It is not an effective protest if it does not upset people. (John Scalzi)

But you must bother the right people.

64. My silence did not protect me. Your silence will not protect you. (Audre Lorde)

Silence only makes us accomplices.

65. If they take away our freedom of expression, we remain dumb and silent and they can lead us like sheep to the slaughterhouse. (George Washington)

When we remain silent, others gain power.

66. In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. (Phil Ochs)

The beauty of a better world.

67. Humanity progresses. Today it only burns my books; centuries ago they would have burned me. (Sigmund Freud)

Progress is part of life.

68. Let it be noted that you are different, not because of your purse or your clothes, but because of your heart.

Make your difference highlight your personality.

69. The town, the fire and the water can never be tamed. (Focílides)

Remember that others have the power that you allow them to have.

70. I'd rather be a rebel than a slave. I urge women to rebellion. (Meryl Streep)

Before conformism, fight.

71. All attempts at protest had been silenced in blood. (Alejo Carpentier)

Many seek to silence the protests so that the real state of a town is not known.

72. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful and committed people can change the world. In fact, they are the only ones who have ever done it. (Margaret Mead)

With small actions and tenacity, impossible things can be accomplished.

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73. Rebellion is the daughter of experience. (Leonardo da Vinci)

A way not to make the same mistake.

74. Rebellion is life: submission is death. (Ricardo Flores Magón)

So live at your best.

75. If we don't believe in the freedom of expression of those we despise, we don't believe in it at all. (Noam Chomsky)

It is useless to clamor for our rights of opinions, if we are going to silence others.

76. In a world of lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

The truth always comes to light.

77. Diogenes de Sínope teaches us to exercise the right to protest, to be fundamentally free and autonomous. (Walter Riso)

Teachings of Diogenes that it is necessary to put to the test.

78. When you are born poor, being a student is the greatest act of rebellion against the system. (Thomas Bulat)

Study helps us overcome many obstacles.

79. When they tried to shut me up, I screamed. (Teresa Wilms Montt)

When they want to stop you, just keep going.

80. The right of rebellion is sacred because its exercise is essential to break down the obstacles that oppose the right to live. (Ricardo Flores Magón)

The importance of struggles in the world.