Dissent sayings

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◆ It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

- Martin Luther King Jr99

◆ Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

- William Faulkner99

◆ Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

- Linda Ellerbee99

◆ The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

- Eleanor Holmes Norton99

◆ Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

- Madame De Stael99

◆ A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.

- Henry Steele Commager99

◆ Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change

- Will Durant99

◆ Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

- Charles Evans Hughes99

◆ In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

- J William Fulbright99

◆ Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

- Jacob Bronowski99

◆ Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

- Howard Zinn99