Civil Disobedience Quotes
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
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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.
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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
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Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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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.
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In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
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Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
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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.
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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
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Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
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Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.