Definition of Protest

Protest

To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

To make a solemn declaration (often a written one) expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your votes.

To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty.

To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.

A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; as, the protest of lords in Parliament.

A solemn declaration in writing, in due form, made by a notary public, usually under his notarial seal, on behalf of the holder of a bill or note, protesting against all parties liable for any loss or damage by the nonacceptance or nonpayment of the bill, or by the nonpayment of the note, as the case may be.

A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may be, and protesting against them.

A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary.

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Protest Quotations

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

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous Huxley

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Elie Wiesel

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

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Robert Mugabe

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Lewis Mumford

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas Huxley

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
Thom Yorke

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.
Denzel Washington

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
William O. Douglas

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.
Margaret Fuller

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
Michael Bloomberg

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Nina Simone

The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
Jenny Shipley

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
Mary Tyler Moore

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
Jose Saramago

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
Jay Alan Sekulow

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
Phil Ochs

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
Paul Kantner

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
Graham Nash

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.
Steve Buyer

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
Billy Corgan

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
Craig Bruce

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
Caleb Cushing

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
John Desmond Bernal

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Protest Translations

protest in Afrikaans is protesteer, beswaar, protes
protest in Danish is protestere
protest in Dutch is betwisten, bestrijden
protest in French is protestation, protestent, contestation, protestez
protest in German is Einspruch
protest in Italian is eccezione, protesta
protest in Portuguese is protesto
protest in Spanish is protestar, objecion, protesta
protest in Swedish is protestera

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