Quotes of: Civil-disobedience Keyword

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Sonia Johnson

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.

Noam Chomsky

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Constance Baker Motley

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

Al Gore

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

Marsha Blackburn

Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Walden & Civil Disobedience

La loi n'a jamais rendu les hommes plus justes d'un iota ; et, à cause du respect qu'ils lui marquent, les êtres bien disposés eux-même deviennent les agents de l'injustice.

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Civil Disobedience, Solitude & Life Without Principle

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscienc...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is ...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

Nancy Gibbs

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Martin Sheen

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 and not get killed in the process.

Edward James Olmos

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

Noam Chomsky

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chanc...

Walden & Civil Disobedience