Top Dissent Quotes

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more tim...

We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, w...

Dissent Definition

(v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

(v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.

(v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.

(n.) The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.

(n.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.

(n.) Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

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.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

The ultimate truth is mystical truth, the ultimate reality is sacred chaos.

The ultimate truth is mystical truth, the ultimate reality is sacred chaos. - Muzwot

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been...

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To hi...

Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what's happening is just the op...

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.

Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always prioritize the dissenting voice over the status quo.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic...

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in r...

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appre...