"To protest the unfair, unjust policies of the Bush Administration"

"We can speak out all day long.  We can speak out until the cows come home.  But it's time for us to put up or shut up!"

Rev. Derek King
(Nephew of Dr. Martin Luther King)

Rep. Bill Crawford,
Indiana State Representative

"This isn't a new thing of police harassing people who want change."
Eric Edgin
Solidarity Books

"The struggle is greater than ever before. It seems that our government does not want to hear dissent doesn't want to hear all sides of the story whether it's about the war [or] whether it's a local issue like the extension of the I-69 interstate through southern Indiana. It seems that a well-rounded debate is not welcome, and that's not what democracy is about. "

Julia Vaughn
Policy Director, Common Cause

"I'm for peace. I'm for the peace that the Word of God talks about. I'm talking about that love your neighbor as you love yourself."

Joy Echols
Gospel Singer

"Islam is a religion of peace. Some want to lie on us and say that our sixth pillar is jihad. They want to call jihad a holy war. This gathering here today is jihad. Jihad means to struggle for what is right against what is wrong... Don't believe what you hear in the media without investigating on your own."

Mikal Saahir
Imam, New Islamic Center
Columnist, Indianapolis Recorder

"The people's public places, the people's capital, cannot be declared off limits to the people."

Andrew Jacobs, Jr.
Former Indiana Congressman

Dorothy Herron
Concerned Clergy

Charlie Kafoure

John Krull
Executive Director, Indiana Civil Liberties Union (ICLU)

Mary Mitchell
Professor of Law, IUPUI

"Question to you and to our President and to our country: didn't we learn anything from Vietnam?"

Cornell Burris
Veterans for Peace

Robert Jackson
Concerned Clergy

Joanne Sanders
Indianapolis City-County Council

"In the eight decades since 1917, the United Sates has been in a state of war for 17 years, or about 20% of the time. We are not a peaceful nation."

Joseph Farah
Veterans for Peace