Action Quote by Steven Petrow

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change…

— Edward James Olmos

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

— Marvin Ammori

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more…

— William Kunstler

My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in…

— Vandana Shiva

“When you think about nonviolence, you think of Gandhi—not an anonymous protestor in one of Gandhi’s marches who faced down riot clubs and guns,…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But…

— William Kunstler

“Fore more than a decade - from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s - conservatives systematically and strategically linked opposition to civil rights legislation…

— Michelle Alexander

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

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

— Jay Weatherill

“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

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

“The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event…

— Hannah Arendt