Civil Disobedience

[deminks]

Some quotes that may be inspiring, comforting, in light of the sh*storm going on around us.

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849



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



As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ~Clarence Darrow



We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963


http://www.quotegarden.com/civil-disobedience.html


None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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/rant off.