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Protest Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Protest Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

Related topics: Values

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow

An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One who breaks an unjust law
that conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie