#disobedience

We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers. ↗

— Bayard Rustin

#inspirational #making-a-difference-in-the-world #inspirational

I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly. ↗

— Barbara Dana

#disobedience #obedience #public-opinion #death

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#been #born #disobedience #having #i

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#amendment #change #civil #civil disobedience #disobedience

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#anti-war #civil-disobedience #non-violence #social-justice #age

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#education #evil #good #humane #morality

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#freedom #liberty #obedience #protest #slave

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bagels #butter #butter-knife #creation #deadly

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#disobedience #inclination #natural #natural inclination #whenever

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#allows #believe #bring #change #civil