MIPOTW: In Protest

The Most Interesting Phrase of the Week 030709 is really a collection of phrases in protest.  They are highlighted phrases from recaps of California Prop 8 events.  I’ve been reading thoughts and testimony on the blog you didn’t know I was reading (www.lesbiandad.com — referenced here and more on that later).

“We don’t walk in your shadow, we grow in your shade.” [Superimposed over photo of Harvey Milk on protest sign]

“We were teaching them the bible. We totally knew passages better than they did.” [Overheard after an encounter between both sides.  Hint: the teach-ee was a Vote Yes proponent]

“We are the Jewish community: we pray with our feet.” [protest sign]

“One word came to mind, as ‘No on 8′ / ‘Yes on 8′ chants were competing for every spare inch in the brain: Babel.” [blogger observation]

“Behind every successful person lies a pack of haters.” [back of tshirt]

“A campaign is not a movement.  You don’t have to ask for permission to speak, and you don’t need to speak from a script.  A movement happens 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” [speaker at Prop 8 Town Hall]

Love it. Hate it.  Too poignant to ignore.