A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Civil Civil Disobedience Co-Operation Constructive Disobedience Effort Operation Substantial Terms Thought Without

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Howard Zinn

The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.

Edward Snowden

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

Al Gore

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

Marsha Blackburn

If Snowden really claims that his actions amounted to genuine civil disobedience, he should go to some English language bookstore in Moscow and get a copy of Henry David Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience'.

Michael Hayden

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Mahatma Gandhi

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

Mahatma Gandhi