Dissent Quotes

It is easy to conform.

To go with the flow. But history testifies that true progress rarely comes this way. Dissent is the strong voice of refusal. It is the courage to say no when everyone else says yes. It is the spark that ignites social and intellectual change. It has changed the course of civilizations. From philosophers who challenged established beliefs to activists who demanded justice.

Here you will find words from those who dared to challenge the prevailing norms.

Quote by John Lewis: [Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You can...
Quote by Woodrow Wilson: We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities....
Quote by John Lewis: We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I ...
Quote by Mark Twain: The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds...
Quote by Colin Powell: Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes...
Quote by Woodrow Wilson: Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty....
Quote by Winston Churchill: No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow...
Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forb...
Quote by Barack Obama: To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that yo...
Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new p...
Quote by John F. Kennedy: And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent whic...