Civil-disobedience Quotes

The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture ...

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding o...

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have ...

But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I ...

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see...

If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of...

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think tha...

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags...

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some t...

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonv...

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the pe...

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his strid...

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation wit...

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.