Civil disobedience Quote by 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…

— Wendell Phillips

“You should dress her better, you know." "I'm not interested in putting clothes on her," Adrian called as he steered me away. "Watch it,"…

— Richelle Mead

“And then I’m steered away, flicking a winner’s grin over my shoulder at my girl. It takes a moment to register that I’ve been…

— Michelle Hodkin

There's been certain opportunities that have arisen that would have been financially quite advantageous but, creatively, would have steered me away from my career…

— Maia Mitchell

Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood…

— Michael Brune

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

— Martin Sheen

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

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