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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
Frederick Douglass
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
William Graham Sumner
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Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions.
Avigdor Lieberman
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Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
Blaise Pascal
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Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
Paul Farmer
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Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
Stanley Hauerwas
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Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
James McGreevey
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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
Howard Zinn
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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.
Noam Chomsky
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin
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Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.
Lidia Yusupova
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Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
Alexander Hamilton
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Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.
Alexander Hamilton
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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
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Civil servants take forever to do anything.
Joseph Wambaugh
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Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.
Thomas Paine
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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