Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: acquiescence
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
Albert EinsteinTags: acquiescence activism remaining-silent dissent protest consent duty
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: acquiescence
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxTags: acquiescence activism justice protest free-speech principles
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da VinciTags: acquiescence silence dissent protest authority complicity
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya AngelouTags: acquiescence surrender
Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscience to governmental authority. Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it...
In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did.
Tags: acquiescence justice oppression civil-disobedience rule-of-law dangers-of-obedience
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