Top 40 On Civil Disobedience Quotes
#1. King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
Constance Baker Motley
#2. I don't believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.
Ellen Page
#3. Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we?
Peter F. Hamilton
#4. Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.
Howard Zinn
#5. New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.
Douglas Coop
#7. If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.
Al Gore
#8. There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last.
David T. Dellinger
#9. Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. Ethnicity and tribe began, by definition, where sovereignty and taxes ended. The ethnic zone was feared and stigmatized by state rhetoric precisely because it was beyond its grasp and therefore an example of defiance and an ever-present temptation to those who might wish to evade the state.
James C. Scott
#13. I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
Rosie O'Donnell
#14. If we don't rebel, if we're not physically in an active rebellion, then it's spiritual death.
Chris Hedges
#15. Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. True civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
Archibald Cox
#18. There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
Martin Sheen
#22. I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
Martin Sheen
#23. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.
Bertrand Russell
#28. It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.
Winston Churchill
#29. Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
Marvin Ammori
#31. I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.
Rick Santorum
#32. 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
#33. Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
Terry Tempest Williams
#35. Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up,
Larry Klayman
#40. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle.
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