Civil Disobedience Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Gestures, Sacred, Resistance

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

  Ted Nugent

  Kings, Defiance, Emperor

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Important, Tactics

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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

  Philip Hart

  Instance, Has Beens, Appropriate

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Taken, Thinking, Political

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Resistance, Impossible, Offers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Direct Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Earthquakes, Political, Upheaval

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• 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.

  William Kunstler

  Today, Needs, Type

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• My running mate, Ajamu Baraka, was out camping out with the homeless in Baltimore . We were both recently at the Standing Rock Sioux encampment where in fact we are both now, a warrant is out for our arrest for participating in civil disobedience to support this very critical stand being taken on behalf of our water, on behalf of human rights, on behalf of our climate.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Taken, Rights

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

  Edward Snowden

  Party, Direct Action, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

  Philip Glass

  Mean, Names, Fifty

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• 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.

  William Kunstler

  Favors, Certain, Used

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Peaceful, Rebellion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing

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

  Francesca Martinez

  Accepting Yourself, Accepting, Disobedience

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• Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Prisoner, Strict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Deeds, Greater, Values

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• There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt commit civil disobedience," There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not." What you do is you face the realities of the situation, and decide whether what you're doing will help or hurt the goal you set.

  Allard K. Lowenstein

  Hurt, Reality, Goal

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do not suppress rage, but vent it constructively and use its energy peacefully but forcefully to cripple the operations of an oppressive society. Civil disobedience can utilize the militance wasted in riots to seize clothes or groceries many do not even want.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Clothes, Energy, Use

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• The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Law, Giving

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• In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.

  Conan O'Brien

  Nature, Ocean, Health

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• Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Reality, Rights, Texas

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pens Scathing Dissent On Texas Voter ID Law" By Braden Goyette, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2014.

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• But the question is, do we care enough? Do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable? Do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? Do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today?

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Country, Pain

  "CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.

  Ted Cruz

  Leadership, Strong, Spring

  "Cruz praises Obama on Iran" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. September 28, 2013.

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