Protesting Quotes

Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix. No longer can some wait on the sidelines, hoping for incremental change. In times like this, silence is complicity.

– Kamala Harris

In opinion piece in Cosmopolitan magazine.

There is military force that has been deployed on our own people. Looters, yes. Criminals, absolutely. But on protesters, who are begging and pleading, our protesters who are in pain? You know, you would be surprised how people in pain would respond when you say to them, ‘I care about you.’ When you say to them, ‘I’m listening to you.’

– Dwayne Johnson

On Donald Trump deploying military to quell unrest over police brutality.

The idea that the military would be called in to dominate and to suppress what, for the most part, were peaceful protests – admittedly, where some had opportunistically turned them violent – and that the military would somehow come in and calm that situation was very dangerous to me.

– Martin Dempsey

Former US Joint Chiefs if Staff Chairman.

So America, we proclaim as we memorialize George Floyd: Do not cooperate with evil. Join the young people in the streets protesting against the evil, the inhumane, the torture that they witnessed on that video.

– Benjamin Crump

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

– Paul Watson