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| b5b993e | Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. | social-justice civil-disobedience non-violence anti-war | Arundhati Roy | |
| 065cfa0 | Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscience to governmental authority. Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it... In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did. | dangers-of-obedience rule-of-law civil-disobedience justice oppression | Howard Zinn | |
| 2b23b15 | Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one's beloved extended community. | human-rights leadership accountability beloved-community civic-responsibility civic-virtue civil-disobedience communities democratic-process discourse-on-democracy discourse-on-freedom editorials-on-democracy leadership-characteristics leadership-theory political-art political-chaos political-ethics political-poets political-posters political-rights practicing-democracy right-to-vote sustainable-living teaching-democracy political-commentary gun-laws civic-duty gun-violence presidential-election discourse-on-a-better-world police-culture postered-poetics-by-aberjhani political-theory peace-on-earth emigrants national-history-day police-reform voting immigration political-philosophy peace democracy | Aberjhani |