Civil disobedience Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil disobedience Disobedience Doing nothing Voting Voting day
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man. — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau 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