Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic. — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful. — Philip Hart Copy Share Image
Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by… — Haifaa al-Mansour Copy Share Image
“The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For good or for bad, India has rejected a more totalitarian approach to how it will deal with its social problems. We… — Cyril Shroff Copy Share Image
“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The accession of not one but three illegal drug users in a row to the US presidency constitutes an existential challenge to… — Jeffrey Dhywood Copy Share Image
“Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
“But there is also (though much of this is kept from us, to keep us intimidated and without hope) the bubbling of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Thoreau could speculate that even a slight shift in natural processes—a little colder winter, a little higher flood—might put an end to… — Laura Dassow Walls Copy Share Image