Civil Disobedience Quotes
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Civil Disobedience Quotes & Sayings
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If we don't rebel, if we're not physically in an active rebellion, then it's spiritual death.
— Chris Hedges
Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
— Henry David Thoreau
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?
— Michel Templet
I never read Civil Disobedience. They did assign it.
— Brian Spellman
The problem in this world is not civil disobedience ... th e problem in this world is civil obedience.
— Howard Zinn
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
— Martin Sheen
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
— Constance Baker Motley
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience is an act of love.
— Tim DeChristopher
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.
— Arun Gandhi
Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi said that only people with a high regard for the law were qualified for civil disobedience.
— Mark Shepard
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?
— Pat Buchanan
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
— Sonia Johnson
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
— Howard Zinn
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.
— Francesca Martinez
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.
— Noam Chomsky
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
— Nancy Gibbs
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
— Marvin Ammori
Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.
— Douglas Coop
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
— Mahatma Gandhi