#disobedience

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

— Aristotle

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

— Oriana Fallaci

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Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscience to governmental authority. Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it... In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did. ↗

— Howard Zinn

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. ↗

— Howard Zinn

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. ↗

— Martin Sheen

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