Civil Disobedience Quotes
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
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.
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?
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 is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?
