Civil disobedience Quotes · Page 4

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

— Mahatma Gandhi

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

— Malala Yousafzai

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to…

— Larry Flynt

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting…

— Henry David Thoreau

The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil…

— Rory Kennedy

Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for…

— Kumari Jayawardena

I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know…

— Snoop Dogg

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much…

— Desmond Tutu

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a…

— Henry David Thoreau

In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they…

— Fatima Bhutto

I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read…

— Lauren Oliver

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Fore more than a decade - from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s - conservatives systematically and strategically linked opposition to civil…

— Michelle Alexander

I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the…

— Noam Chomsky

My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to…

— Vandana Shiva

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United…

— Woodrow Wilson

You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the…

— Bill McKibben

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate…

— Henry David Thoreau

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development…

— Erich Fromm

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

— Pat Buchanan

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right…

— Henry David Thoreau

“if we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active rebellion, then it’s spiritual death.”

— Chris Hedges

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.

— Greta Thunburg

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

— Ted Nugent

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

— William Kunstler

“Thoreau’s declaration in “Civil Disobedience”: “I heartily accept the motto—‘That government is best which governs least.”

— Jon Krakauer

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of…

— Michel Templet

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

— Terry Tempest Williams

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

— Martin Sheen