The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic. — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — 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
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
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of… — Mona Eltahawy 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
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to… — Azadeh Moaveni Copy Share Image
I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in… — William Kunstler 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
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
Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“No doubt you’ve heard the phrase 'ignorance of the law is no excuse’, and are probably familiar with the statist meaning of… — Starchild 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
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
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
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
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
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — 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
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience. — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.” — Arun 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
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
