Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.
Arundhati RoyTags: non-violence social-justice anti-war anti-imperialism civil-disobedience
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
Henry David ThoreauTags: government civil-disobedience
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: activism dissent protest civil-disobedience
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: activism dissent protest civil-disobedience
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma GandhiTags: dissent political civil-disobedience
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
AristotleTags: activism patriotism virtue good value civil-disobedience
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
Henry David ThoreauTags: dissent civil-disobedience
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
Howard ZinnTags: activism democracy dissent protest law truth-telling civil-disobedience
New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.
Douglas CoopTags: power protest propaganda civil-disobedience activist charisma loaded-language
There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last.
David T. DellingerTags: justice courage resistance civil-disobedience
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