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Abraham Lincoln1 quote
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. — Abraham Lincoln · 1838Ella Wheeler Wilcox1 quote
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox · 1914Emmeline Pankhurst1 quote
We are here not because we are law-breakers. We are here in our efforts to become law-makers. — Emmeline Pankhurst · 1914Mario Savio1 quote
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! — Mario Savio · 1964Mitch Hedberg1 quote
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999