Protests Quotes

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath - on his political activism and arrests for protests.

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen`s wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans` use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.

Related to that, the Marshallese at the same time send a lot of protests to the United States. They ask that the tests be stopped.

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.

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.

I think that it`s a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it`s only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

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 very fact that members (of the Legislature) have renounced taking the unvouchered expenses ... leaves me with the impression that these protests are real, the pressure the lawmakers are feeling is real.

Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

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.

But Australia has a very good record of not giving in to such protests.

We hope protests are carried out in a peaceful way, but if they are not, we are prepared to give wrongdoers a forceful response.