Civil Disobedience Movement

Famous quotes containing the words civil, disobedience and/or movement:

    “There are those who say to you—we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    “Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.”
    —Milan Kundera (b. 1929)