“King became the movement’s voice and launched a new phase of mass protest. He was a disciple of the teachings of Gandhi… — Anthony R. Fellow Copy Share Image
If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San… — Rosie O'Donnell 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
I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of… — Philip Glass 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
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“If 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
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
My running mate, Ajamu Baraka, was out camping out with the homeless in Baltimore . We were both recently at the Standing… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“Fore more than a decade - from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s - conservatives systematically and strategically linked opposition to civil… — Michelle Alexander 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
Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for… — Kumari Jayawardena Copy Share Image
