Civil disobedience Quote by Archibald Cox Download Open image “... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.” — Archibald Cox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil disobedience Disobedience Resorts States
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything. — Alice Notley 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 effect on… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of… — Albert J. Nock 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 effect on… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is… — Rory Kennedy 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
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his… — Hannah Arendt 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 Voting Rights… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The only word these corporations know is more,” wrote Chris Hedges, former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and the New York… — Jim Marrs 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 the majority. — Henry David Thoreau 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
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