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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit ...
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.
Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
Disobedience is a sure recipe for disaster, picking up the pieces is even harder
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
The voice of protest is the voice of another and an ancient civilization which seems to have bred in us the instinct to enjoy and fight rather than to suffer and understand.
society pays great attention to the motives of dissenters, but none to those who submit to our institutions, either by ensuring that their actions remain concealed or by using any other means. Obedience to authority is implicitly deemed the natural state. In
There must be engagement: there must be protest.
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.
Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.
Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.
Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.
Civil disobedience is an act of love.
Public Opinion ... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
A silent, unavoidable revolution is taking place in society, a revolution THAT CARES AS LITTLE ABOUT THE HUMAN LIVES IT DESTROYS as an earthquake cares about the houses it ravages. Classes and RACES THAT ARE TOO WEAK to dominate the new conditions of existence WILL BE DEFEATED.
The key of joy is disobedience.
Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I'm going to show you who I actually am.
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.
Resist much, obey little.
Our problem is civil obedience
For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.
It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.
Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.
Take responsibility for the disenfranchised people
A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!
I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.
Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
Fear is the greatest form of oppression.
The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to
its fullest!
You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience
I never read Civil Disobedience. They did assign it.
Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.
However, not all sorrow and adversity come as a result of disobedience. Some of the disappointments come from living in a fallen world. Many
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.
The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.
When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster ...
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate
Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.
Freedom: to walk free and own no superior
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.
But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.
It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. 41
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
Each and every protest is a wave that moves us beyond the stagnant waters of servitude and oppression toward the shores of self-respect." Her
There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.
Obedience is the road to freedom.
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.
Dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!
Obedience is the path to freedom ...
Riots are the voices of the unheard.
What is to prevent, say, an uprising?
Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.
Revolt begins first in the human heart. But there comes a time when revolt spreads from heart to spirit, when a feeling becomes an idea, when impulse leads to concerted action. This is the moment of revolution.