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Civil Disobedience Quotes

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

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

Emmeline Pankhurst
Deeds, Greater, Civil Disobedience

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

Tim DeChristopher
Acts Of Love, Civil Disobedience, Disobedience
"Civil disobedience is an act of love | An interview with Tim DeChristopher". Interview with Leslee Goodman, moonmagazine.org. December 1, 2014.

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

Archibald Cox
States, Resorts, Civil Disobedience

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Sonia Johnson
Rights, Risk, Civil Disobedience

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

Constance Baker Motley
Kings, Claims, Civil Disobedience

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Tariq Ali
Rights, Civil Rights, Civil Disobedience

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Henry David Thoreau
Voting, Doing Nothing, Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Doe, Violence, Civil Disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence, Civil Disobedience, Disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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

Henry David Thoreau
Law, Unjust, Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.96, Bantam Classics

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

Francesca Martinez
Accepting Yourself, Accepting, Civil Disobedience

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