Civil disobedience Quotes

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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one’s opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
o Mohandas Gandhi

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
o Hannah Arendt, “Civil Disobedience”, Crisis of the Republic, (1972)

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison…the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.
o Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Civil disobedience is still disobedience.
o Maddox