Civil Disobedience Quotes

A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.