No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. — Hermann Graf Keyserling Copy Share Image
I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez 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 so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know… — Snoop Dogg 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
I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt 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
Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal… — Terry Tempest Williams 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
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
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
Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them.… — Howard Zinn 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
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
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
“But there is also (though much of this is kept from us, to keep us intimidated and without hope) the bubbling of… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
