Disobedience Quotes - Page 8

• I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait until they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side, without waiting for that other one. Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Support

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Coolidge 2; Douglass 7; Andrew Jackson 7; John Knox 1; Wendell Phillips 3

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• 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.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Gestures, Sacred, Resistance

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Taken, Thinking, Political

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.

  Max Anders

  Blessing, Praying, Should

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• It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day.

  John Hagee

  Responsibility, People, Jehovah

  John Hagee (2011). “Earth's Final Moments”, p.5, Charisma Media

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• 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.

  Cecily McMillan

  War, School, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor the ever-changing impressions in the shape of events with the mind. All these things were brought about in man by his disobedience.

  Maximus the Confessor

  God, Truth, Pain

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• Evil exists because of the disobedience of Satan. God gave Satan, and the angels, and man free will. Satan used his free will and abused it by not obeying authority. Hell was created by Satan’s disobedience to God, and his purposeful removal from God’s love—which is what hell is. Removing yourself from God’s love. You send yourself to hell. God does not send you there.

  Stephen Colbert

  Love You, Angel, Men

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• 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

  Believe, People, Way

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• I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up.

  Larry Klayman

  Hands, President, Demand

  "Rallier tells Obama to 'put the Quran down'". Article by Ashley Killough, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 13, 2013.

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• I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

  Betty Friedan

  Two, Years, World

  "Work and life: The search for balance" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2001.

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• Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

  Sivananda

  Self, Arrogance, Mixtures

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• That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Kind, Anarchist

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• 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.

  Azadeh Moaveni

  Thinking, Kind, Difficult

  "Lipstick Jihad: An Interview With Azadeh Moaveni". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 9, 2005.

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• You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Order, Taught, Unfair

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Michael Brune

  Strong, Opportunity, Color

  "Sierra Club Turns to Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone Pipeline". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2013.

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• The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

  John Adams

  Mean, Punishment, Government

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• 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."

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Growing Up, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• A film about the love generation - the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer rise. Lucifer is the Light god, not the devil - the Rebel Angel behind what's happening in the world today. His message is that the key of joy is disobedience. Isis (Nature) wakes. Osiris (Death) answers. Lilith (Destroyer) climbs to the place of Sacrifice. The Magus activates the circle and Lucifer - Bringer of Light - breaks through.

  Kenneth Anger

  Party, Angel, Sacrifice

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• When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

  John Dewey

  Needs, Influence, Threatening

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• My running mate, Ajamu Baraka, was out camping out with the homeless in Baltimore . We were both recently at the Standing Rock Sioux encampment where in fact we are both now, a warrant is out for our arrest for participating in civil disobedience to support this very critical stand being taken on behalf of our water, on behalf of human rights, on behalf of our climate.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Taken, Rights

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Speech, Association, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.149, Penguin Books India

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• Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

  Cleve Jones

  Writing, School, Direct Action

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

  Ted Nugent

  Kings, Defiance, Emperor

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

  Tariq Ali

  Rights, Civil Rights, Civil Disobedience

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