Civil disobedience Quote by Howard Zinn Download Open image “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.” — Howard Zinn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil disobedience Disobedience Obedience Problem Starvation
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The cost of obedience is nothing compared to the cost of disobedience.. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the new city… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a woman. It was assumed that men, as a matter of biological nature, would sin,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Middle-class Americans might be invited to join a new elite by attacks against the corruption of the established rich. The New Yorker Cadwallader Colden,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will… — Howard Zinn 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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