It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. And immoral. “I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least’; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. November 12, 2013. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent. "16-Year-Old Activist Malala Yousafzai Steals The Show At NYC Awards Show" by Jocelyn Noveck, www.businessinsider.com. Civil disobedience is a beautiful variant to signify growth, it is not discordance which spells death. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. 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. By Joe Jarvis - May 25, 2020 Although the essay was written 168 years ago, the subject of Civil Disobedience is more relevant than ever. Albert Einstein (2010). I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. You cannot shirk this and be a man. There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. Every day we present the best quotes! You have to work for it. 22 quotes from Civil Disobedience with Kwize, collaborative quote checking. We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. 1963, Mahatma Gandhi (2012). I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. It's painting as insurgency. Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends, Howard Zinn (1997). You can rebel in different ways. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your, There is a mistake in the text of this quote. The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience. All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together. Fourteen pages. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. I have chosen civil disobedience. Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 Apr. Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war. I'm also about civil disobedience. Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Our problem is civil obedience. No one will give you change. Disobedience combined with love is the living water of life. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. That’s our problem. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest. Join Kwize to pick, add, edit or explain your favorite Civil Disobedience quotes. Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else.