Civil Disobedience Quotes

64 Civil Disobedience quotes by 42 unique authors

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with… — Hannah Arendt
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences… — Noam Chomsky
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the… — Martin Sheen
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
I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and… — Edward James Olmos
I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town,… — Larry Klayman
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our… — Aaron Swartz
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation? — Pat Buchanan
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. — Martin Sheen
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 own… — Hannah Arendt
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of… — Joan Baez
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of… — Margaret Fuller
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. — Constance Baker Motley
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you… — Wendell Phillips
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only… — Oscar Romero
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he… — Henry David Thoreau
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity. — H.G. Wells
Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary… — Ron Paul
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're… — Bill McKibben
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East,… — Winston Churchill
Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist. — Howard Zinn
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in… — Mahatma Gandhi

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