Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
“When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them." Pastor Butch Paugh” — Tarrin P. Lupo Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful. — Philip Hart Copy Share Image
I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy… — Edward James Olmos 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
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
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
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil… — Al Gore 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers.” — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
