What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.
Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.
I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.
Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.
The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.