Civil disobedience Quote by William Kunstler

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about…

— Ron Paul

“the house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every…

— Henry James

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

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

— William Kunstler

Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood…

— Michael Brune

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

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