Civil Disobedience Quotes

Civil Disobedience Quote of the day

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.

A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

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.

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

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

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

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

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

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

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.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

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

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

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.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.