Civil disobedience Quote by Sonia Johnson Download Open image “Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.” — Sonia Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil disobedience Disobedience Rights Risk Women
Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women's rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically even the… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights. — Clemence Dane Copy Share Image
Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust.… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't. — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy. — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second. — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women,… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and… — Sonia Johnson 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