Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King. — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful. — Philip Hart 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
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
“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
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
The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you accept a democratic system, this means that you are prepared to put up with those of its workings, legislative or… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“The only word these corporations know is more,” wrote Chris Hedges, former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and the… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
“The American Anti-Slavery Society, on the other hand, said the war was “waged solely for the detestable and horrible purpose of extending… — 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
“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 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
