It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VoltaireTags: dissent freedom-of-thought heresy
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
William FaulknerTags: truth dissent protest truth-telling advocacy
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: activism dissent protest civil-disobedience
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)
Tags: knowledge social society opinions dissent thought disagreement equanimity expressing prejudices
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
Benjamin FranklinTags: dissent independent-thought duty
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
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mahatma GandhiTags: activism dissent protest truth-telling complicity
Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden
Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Tags: freedom dissent censorship rebel free-expression radical
In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.
Tags: truth honesty integrity democracy virtue dissent heroes truth-telling
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara EhrenreichTags: activism patriotism dissent protest truth-telling
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