The importance of civil disobedience, in quotes:

[marmar]

I'm watching "Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" - the inspirational impetus for this post. - OP's comment. :patriot:

QUOTES

We should never forget that everythig Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal",
-Martin Luther King Jr.

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resitance to bad laws, and to disobey them.
-Alexander Bickel.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
-Erich Fromm

Integrity has no need of rules
-Albert Camus

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. ~Malcolm X

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ~Louis D. Brandeis

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~Bishop Desmond Tutu

"civil disobedience in American history ... not an ordinary crime but a form of protest engaged in by conscientious citizens when traditional modes of expression are ineffective in righting some wrong." - Howard Zinn

[orpupilofnature57]

1. The erosion of our Democracy is the only Progress Shrub has managed..

...by way of ' Mob Mentality ' condoned and fortified by the Media and Church the two key vehicles Shrub abused and the back doors he slid in through.http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/09/03_hard.html

[marmar]

2. Great piece....

Thanks for the link.