Civil disobedience Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

— Marvin Ammori

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

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

— Howard Zinn

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi