Civil disobedience Quote by 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

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

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Marvin Ammori

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

— 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

“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'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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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