Civil Disobedience Quotes
64 Civil Disobedience quotes by 42 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?
— Pat Buchanan
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My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
— Martin Sheen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
— Constance Baker Motley
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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
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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
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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
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A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.
— H.G. Wells
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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
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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
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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
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Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.
— Howard Zinn
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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
Who Wrote These Civil Disobedience Quotes
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