We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And…

— Malala Yousafzai

There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until…

— Emma Sulkowicz

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where…

— Maya Angelou

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

— Joshua Wong

I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating…

— Dale Jamieson

Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood…

— Michael Brune

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Martin Sheen

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his…

— Hannah Arendt

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

— Gail Bradbrook

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

— Rory Kennedy

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

— Kelly Ayotte