In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.
Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.
I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.