Civil disobedience Quote by Mahatma Gandhi Download Open image “Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.” — Mahatma Gandhi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil disobedience Disobedience Freedom Independence Term
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King. — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended. — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi 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 Times. They are disemboweling every last social service program funded by the taxpayers, from education to Social Security, because they want that money themselves. Let the sick die. Let the poor go hungry. Let families be… — Jim Marrs Copy Share
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