Civil disobedience Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective…

— Terry Tempest Williams

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

— Archibald Cox

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

— Alice Notley

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

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.

— Noam Chomsky

“Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government.…

— Ron Paul

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

— Marvin Ammori

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi