Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-06-17 Jun 16, 2007The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face.~ Justice Potter StewartTo sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.~ Abraham LincolnThe objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.~ Clarence S. Darrow Jun 15, 2007Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.~ Barry GoldwaterHere in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerMen are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains and always was.~ D. H. Lawrence Jun 14, 2007Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiLiberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.~ Woodrow WilsonIt is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.~ Benjamin Franklin Jun 12, 2007We do not move forward by curtailing people’s liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.~ Eleanor RooseveltThe right to revolt has sources deep in our history.~ William O. DouglasOpen discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.~ Saul Bellow Jun 11, 2007Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.~ Andre GideFreedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent and debate.~ Hubert H. HumphreyThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print