Rush Limbaugh Quotes

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

My brother and I met several times during that weekend trying to figure out what we were each going to do, and we met for breakfast the morning of the sit-in and I had decided that I was going to go get arrested, and he decided that he was going to have the harder job and go tell our parents that I'd been arrested.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.

I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty?

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.