Dan Donovan Quotes

The rule is, you can protest all you want. Make all the noise you want. Carry all the signs you want. The minute you throw a rock, you get arrested. The minute you break a window, you get arrested. The minute you break into a store, you get arrested.

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Peacable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime.

A demonstration sometimes doesn’t stop with expressing opinion….it moves to incitement to violence and then to violence

Here we have a protest law. This law does not prevent protests but regulates them.

Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.

I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.

There is a right to protest in our country, but at times the manner in which the protest is done breaks all permissible levels. I don't agree with it at all.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

Liberty of public association; or the security with which malcontents may communicate their sentiments, concert their plans, and practice every mode of opposition short of actual revolt, before the executive power can be legally justified in disturbing them

Shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city.

The law is clear that the right to petition one's government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups…. The right to protest should be commensurate with the enormity of the wrongs that are being protested.

There is no American right to loot stores, or to burn buildings, or to fire rifles from the rooftops. That is crime—and crime must be dealt with forcefully and swiftly, and certainly—under law.

Perhaps at no time in our history had there been such a wholesale violation of civil liberties.

The 4 policeman

When demonstrators are being civilly disobedient, they will in most cases be given a chance to adhere to the law before being arrested, and then if necessary, they will be arrested in a non-violent manner.

We in the Netherlands have the right to demonstrate and the right to speak up if we don't agree with something.

Everybody handles protesters differently.

I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

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.