We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences.
Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders . . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience . . . .