I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him. — Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di Copy Share Image
You may freely choose between obedience and disobedience, but know that a man reaps what he sows. — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its… — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
A common excuse for self-preservation through disobedience is offense. There is a false sense of self-protection in harboring an offense. It keeps… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
“The reality is, when someone knows the truth, knows the will of God, knows what God has spoken , and yet pushes… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — 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
When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Before you die, give some serious thought to vowing holy disobedience whenever necessary. Discerning and knowing why one would choose to disobey… — Karol Jackowski Copy Share Image
The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've been arrested three times. I don't like getting arrested, but it's not so bad when it's an organized form of nonviolent… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for. — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
