Civil disobedience Quote by Sonia Johnson

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

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement,…

— Jennifer Granholm

Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are…

— Robin Lim

Unfortunately, too few women take the risk of running for political office or assuming positions of influence. As a result, our voices are not…

— Deborah K. Ross

Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it's a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it's a risk. If you discuss religion,…

— Asma Jahangir

“To get a women you have to risk losing her.”

— Mystery2

There's no question that women are more risk averse, thoughtful, and deliberative.

— Dan Abrams

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

— Martin Sheen

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

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

— Gail Bradbrook

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

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte