To remind us of the struggles and achievements through the rebellions, we bring a compilation of the best protest phrases.
1. A person has the right to protest and the State must protect their life, regardless of 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 such a fascinating and noble worker that in its work it makes only one 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 true 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 another to hatefully insult everyone.
7. Many of us may die, but I hope we can create a better world.
What need is there to always remain in meaningless conflicts?
8. Society has simply become the new deity before which one 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 the original virtue of man. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
A virtue that we must take advantage of when necessary and only for noble objectives.
10. The protest of the poor is heard even by God, but it does not reach the ear of man. (Félicité Robert de Lamennais)
There are governments that only look out for the well-being of their promoters.
11. I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. I have been close to him sometimes for that reason. (Elie Wiesel)
Sometimes it is necessary to protest against something and then reconcile.
12. Rebellion is the only worthy refuge for intelligence against imbecility. (Arturo Pérez-Reverte)
Seeking our own knowledge can be an act of protest.
13. We ignore 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 remain silent like a subject? (Nach)
Choices we must sometimes make.
16. The spirit of reconstruction arises from the deep instinct of human beings as a realistic protest and as a symbol of their 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.
18. Social protest is delegitimized when fear and violence are used to claim rights to screw the rest of the people. (Luis Gabriel Carrillo Navas)
No protest should violate the rights of innocent people.
19. If they give you a ruled 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 possible to say that a ruler is useless without anything happening to us. Neither does the ruler. (Jaume Perich)
A sad reality. Although that should not be an invitation to remain silent.
22. Rebellion consists of looking at a rose until your eyes are pulverized. (Alejandra Pizarnik)
See 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 have silence imposed on us. (John Berger)
A rebellion constitutes the right to be heard.
25. Protests are part of our democracy. (Michel Temer)
In fact, they form an essential part of it.
26. He who does not move does not hear the noise of his chains.
If you don’t get out of your comfort zone, how do you expect to get ahead?
27. There is no feminine thought. The brain is not a sexual organ. (Charlotte Perkins)
Your thoughts have no gender, 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 shout that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt my cry and I need, at least, to believe in 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 more just alternative future. (John Berger)
A protest should always have a purpose.
31. I realize that protest paintings aren’t exactly fashionable, but I’ve 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)
We must never convince others to have the same ideas as us.
33. I am not accepting the things I cannot change, I am changing the things I cannot accept. (Angela Davis)
The change we should all 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 feel upset and complain about many things, but then you realize that if you can control yourself you cause less problems. (Sōseki Natsume)
Sometimes our disagreement is just irrational personal discontent.
36. Protest, against what? Against everything. (Damaso Alonso)
Against everything that does not allow you to grow.
37. Not voting is not a protest. It’s a surrender. (Keith Ellison)
Not voting is giving away your surrender.
38. I don’t like a young man who doesn’t protest, the young man has the illusion of utopia and utopia is not always bad. (Pope Francisco)
Protests usually arise from disaffected young people.
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 rights, educating them is a rebellion.
40. Freedom is always freedom for those who think differently. (Rosa Luxembourg)
Freedom is a space to express ourselves as we are without fear.
41. Nobody pays attention 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 something you want.
43. Seek happiness in this life, that is where the true spirit of rebellion lies. (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 weather of life? (Aldous Huxley)
Works of art are the maximum 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 put up with a scratch 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 of better things that incites rebellions. (Eric Hoffer)
A rebellion is constituted by hope.
49. I’m like a one-woman protest machine. (Lydia Lunch)
You have all the tools to get ahead.
50. Men oppressed, it is a tragedy. Women are oppressed, it is tradition. (Letty Cottin)
It is necessary that the world also recognizes women’s struggles.
51. Freedom of expression is the basis of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. (Liu Xiaobo)
Without freedom of expression, we are slaves to concealment.
52. As long as the world exists, there will be injustices. And if no one opposed 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 I am not convinced by phrases in their manifestos such as “we distrust the entire political class.” Who do they turn to then when they ask for a dignified life? (Ricardo Flores Magón)
So how will a country be managed?
54. Passivity and meekness do not imply goodness, just as rebellion does not mean savagery. (Práxedis G. Guerrero)
Ideas with meanings different from the one attributed to them.
55. Someday the anvil, tired of being an anvil, will become a hammer. (Mikhail Bakunin)
It is in fatigue 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 matters if they show signs of rebellion. (Sándor Márai)
For a selfish ‘good society’, there cannot be a different way of acting or thinking that is not traditional.
58. Thinking against the current of time is heroic; To say it, crazy. (Eugéne 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 makes way for 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 discomfort with the world. (Ana María Matute)
Many writers have the opportunity to rebel in their writing.
63. It is not an effective protest if it does not bother people. (John Scalzi)
But it must bother the right people.
64. My silence did not protect me. Your silence will not protect you. (Audre Lorde)
Silence only makes us complicit.
65. If they take away our freedom of expression we remain mute 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 moments, the only true protest is beauty. (Phil Ochs)
The beauty of a better world.
67. Humanity progresses. Today he only burns my books; Centuries ago they would have burned me. (Sigmund Freud)
Progress is part of life.
68. Let it be noticed that you are different, not because of your wallet or your clothes, but because of your heart.
Make your difference highlight your personality.
69. The people, fire and water can never be tamed. (Phocylides)
Remember that others have the power that you allow them to have.
70. I prefer to be a rebel than a slave. I urge women to rebellion. (Meryl Streep)
In the face of 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 achieved it. (Margaret Mead)
With small actions and tenacity, impossible things can be achieved.
73. Rebellion is the daughter of experience. (Leonardo da Vinci)
A way to not make the same mistake.
74. Rebellion is life: submission is death. (Ricardo Flores Magón)
So live in your maximum splendor.
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)
There is no point in crying out for our rights to 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 of Sinope teaches us to exercise the right to protest, to be fundamentally free and autonomous. (Walter Riso)
Teachings of Diogenes that need to be put to the test.
78. When you are born poor, being studious is the greatest act of rebellion against the system. (Tomás Bulat)
Study helps us overcome many obstacles.
79. When they tried to silence me, I screamed. (Teresa Wilms Montt)
When they want to stop you, just keep going.
80. The right to rebellion is sacred because its exercise is essential to break down the obstacles that oppose the right to live. (Ricardo Flores Magón)
