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 More about this quote Tags: activism civil disobedience government personal change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Tags: activism prejudice law civil disobedience crime Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: civil disobedience nonviolence tension Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Truth has a power of its own. . . . A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think. —Howard Zinn More about this quote Tags: truth power civil disobedience revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email