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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. | anti-war civil-disobedience non-violence social-justice | 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. | civil-disobedience dangers-of-obedience justice oppression rule-of-law | 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. | accountability beloved-community civic-duty civic-responsibility civic-virtue civil-disobedience communities democracy democratic-process discourse-on-a-better-world discourse-on-democracy discourse-on-freedom editorials-on-democracy emigrants gun-laws gun-violence human-rights immigration leadership leadership-characteristics leadership-theory national-history-day peace peace-on-earth police-culture police-reform political-art political-chaos political-commentary political-ethics political-philosophy political-poets political-posters political-rights political-theory postered-poetics-by-aberjhani practicing-democracy presidential-election right-to-vote sustainable-living teaching-democracy voting | Aberjhani |