Martin Luther King Civil Disobedience Quotes

#1. Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

Susan Griffin

#2. Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.

Andrew Jackson

#3. I'm too angry at you to let you die.

Andrew Peterson

#4. In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

Al Sharpton

#5. Time to die. Angel said in her sweet little girl voice.

James Patterson

#6. [the writer] must copy, with his finite mind, the process of the infinite 'I AM.

John Gardner

#7. I'd been so afraid of losing that I'd never tried to win.

Colleen Houck

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Oscar Wilde

#10. But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

Evan Glodell

#11. You are so bossy.

E.L. James

#12. When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.

Emma Forrest

#13. Where there's love there's no limit; where there's a limit, there's no love.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#14. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Samuel Johnson

#17. Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#18. There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.

Sidney Lumet

#19. It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Aaron Sorkin