Words matter. These are the best Civil Disobedience Quotes from famous people such as Nancy Gibbs, Al Gore, Joshua Wong, Richard Phillips, Martin Sheen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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.
As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, ‘New Museum,’ to be an act of civil disobedience. It’s not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It’s painting as insurgency.
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.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
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.
The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It’s up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we’re talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.
I talk a lot about justice. I’m about it. I’m also about civil disobedience.
You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it’s peaceful, of course.
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
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.
Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.
Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you’re risking, what you’re bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn’t hurt anybody else.
Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it’s nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
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.
I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.
