Protest Quotes

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

Related topics: Values Courage

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

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

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

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

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

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

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

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

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

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

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

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

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

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

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

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

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

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

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

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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