Civil disobedience Quote by Michelle Alexander

“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and…

— Michelle Alexander

“Civil rights protests were frequently depicted as criminal rather than political in nature, and federal courts were accused of excessive “lenience” toward lawlessness, thereby…

— Michelle Alexander

“King became the movement’s voice and launched a new phase of mass protest. He was a disciple of the teachings of Gandhi and Thoreau,…

— Anthony R. Fellow

“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that…

— Howard Zinn

“Be constantly civil. Martin Luther King Jr. had shown without fail his fortitude on abiding the laws of civility. In the confines of darkness,…

— Larry Berg

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

— Henry Rollins

Okay, so here's my question: When did civility become incompatible with protest? Why do some people consider civility an antonym - anathema, even -…

— Steven Petrow

I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots…

— Noam Chomsky

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

— James Hansen

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else,…

— Peter Riegert

Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of…

— Ernie Chambers

By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

— H. W. Brands