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
I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire… — Al Sharpton 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
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
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
It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for. — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil… — Aaron Swartz 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
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation? — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
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