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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 and excitement and intoxication go ill together.”

Together Ill Excitement Disobedience Civil Disobedience Intoxication

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.”

Self Individual Normal Inherent Defence Disobedience Civil Disobedience Normal Life Self Defence

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.”

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Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.”

Should Speech Aggressive Association Free Speech Confined Disobedience Civil Disobedience Vindication

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.”

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Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.”

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Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

“Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.”

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Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.”

“I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.”

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Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.”

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Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.”

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Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."”

“Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.”

“I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.”

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Author:Azadeh Moaveni

“If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.”

Ifs Believe Persons Done Young I Believe Stage Planets Right Now Plant Capture Construction Carbon Coal Disobedience Civil Disobedience Being Done

Author:Al Gore

“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.”

Trying Wells Sometimes Goal Inspire Tactics Disobedience Civil Disobedience Inspire Others

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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 . . . .”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.”

Should Government Universal Population Scales Preparing Disobedience Civil Disobedience Large Scale

Book:Fact and Fiction

Source: Fact and Fiction

“I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.”

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Author:Cecily McMillan

“My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people without the kinds of instruments he revived. Civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy.”

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