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“Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.”
“Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.”
“Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.”
“Civil disobedience is an act of love.”
“Civil disobedience is being disobedient to the specific “requirement” but still honoring the position of authority. If you are civilly disobedient, you will be subjected to the consequences of that disobedience.”
Source: Dual Citizenship: Living as a Christian in America
“Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.”
“Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.”
Source: Collected Works
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.”
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders . . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience . . . .”
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
“Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.”
“Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.”
“Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.”
“Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.”
“Civil disobedience is urged not to destroy the United States but because the government is now poorly organized to achieve democracy. The aim of such a movement always will be to improve the nature of the government, to urge and counsel resistance to military Jim Crow in the interest of a higher law--the principle of equality and justice upon which real community and security depend.”
Source: Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
“Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.”
Source: Collected Works
“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 dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.”
Source: Henry VI, Part One
“Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.”
“Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.”
“Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.”
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion - issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.”
“Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.”
“Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.”
“Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.”
“Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.”
“Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.”
Source: Writings of John Quincey Adams
“Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
“Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
“Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.”
Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
“Civil Liberty (The Sonnet)
Policy is not the precursor to civil liberty,
Civic duty is the precursor to civil liberty.
If there is no civic duty, there is no civil liberty,
If there is no civic duty, civilians are but catastrophe.
Contrary to unwritten political law of abuse,
Civilians are not the doormats of democracy.
Civilians are the doors, civilians are the buildings,
Civilians are the whole of the social anatomy.
Problem is, it's more convenient to live life as doormat,
Than take responsibility and turn politicians obsolete.
The war-mongers know this uncivilized tenet of the apes,
Hence they can turn living beings into moronic nationalist.
So I repeat, civic duty is the alpha and omega of civil liberty.
Till we realize this, there is no peace, justice and equality.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions.”
“Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.”
“Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.”
“Civil order mattered.
Zoe didn’t know why Farah continued to wear the headscarf, but most Middle-Eastern women wore modest clothing to anchor themselves to a moral order, in an upside-down world.
Zoe wore the chador as a protective shell, to erase herself, to avoid thinking, to envelop herself in the complete custody of her adopted Muslim sisters. In their care she would come out healed, able to process the bigotry that caused the murder of her Jewish parents. Then, when she was whole again, she would reclaim her place in the world.
Though others couldn’t see it, behind the nameless, shapeless, Middle-Eastern garb, she was healing. The chador cocooned and nurtured her. Dour exteriors meant blossoming interiors . . . to Zoe. Judaism centered her, but Islam shielded her. Both served their purpose . . . for now.”
“Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.”
“Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.”
Source: Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflection on Church, Politics and Life
“Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.”
“Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.”
Source: The Rights of Man
“Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.”
“Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.”
“Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.”
“Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.”
“Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.”
“Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.”