“We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers.” — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The question deserves to be asked: Is hating one's nation really such a bad thing? Or perhaps more importantly, after the crimes… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we… — Oscar Romero 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
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
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
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart,… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Why do some people feel offended by the word shit, but not by the word poop? Because some little old lady at… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“But we need to search for and find, what we need to own and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing, is a… — Megan McKenna 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
