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Poverty leads to protests.
Protests are part of our democracy.
I was involved in some peaceful protests.
I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.
Protests have a value in society that I don't think you can quantify.
Non-violent protests are signs of a healthy democracy, not an ailing one.
Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.
I do not lead the Hong Kong protests, because no one person leads the protests.
Will Beijing really send out the army to suppress our protests? Never say never.
Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.
It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.
Debate and discussions strengthen democracy but violence during protests weaken democracy.
My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.
Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.
Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on.
If people go out and start protests for everything, then entire Tamil Nadu will become a grave yard!
I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.
During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.
Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.
There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.
Non-violent protests have reached a plateau. There is no other way but to get into politics to make your voice heard.
The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.
Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.
I remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.
Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it is.
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.
The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
The Benghazi attack was one of the more confusing, chaotic days that we had at work because you had these multiple violent protests taking place in the Middle East.
Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.
People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve the situation in the country and their life.
I understand the protests, but not the shooting and the attempts to bring down the state. We cannot allow hatred to control our lives. We must remain unified to defeat this evil.
Even as a child, I was witness to protests against a film or a play or a book. All through my growing years, I found various people or organisations protesting against something.
My mum was always extremely political. I have fond memories of making signs as a child for the nuclear disarmament protests at Greenham Common, or helping her bake cakes for them.
There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.