I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to… — Osman Baydemir Copy Share Image
For good or for bad, India has rejected a more totalitarian approach to how it will deal with its social problems. We… — Cyril Shroff Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has… — Oscar Wilde 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
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are… — Alexander Bickel 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
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the… — Bill McKibben 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
“The Christian living in disobedience also lives devoid of joy and hope. But when he begins to understand that Christ has delivered… — Jerry Bridges 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
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
God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. — Hermann Graf Keyserling Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence. — 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
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...” — John Geddes 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
