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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on…

— Tom Tancredo

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

— Howard Zinn

Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

— Howard Zinn

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates…

— Howard Zinn

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is…

— Al Gore

“First of all, the people has a right to passive resistance. The tyrannical law that is a law against reason, a law not directed…

— Heinrich A. Rommen

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they…

— Aristotle

“A God who punishes disobedience will teach us to obey and endure when it would be holy to protest and righteous to refuse to…

— Rebecca Ann Parker

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

— Edwin Louis Cole