Perhaps I can best explain why I knowingly chose to break the law by recalling a conversation I had with my 7-year-old daughter before she left for school on the morning of December 7.
Civil Disobedience
Maia Twedt 3-01-1996
The story of poverty must be told again and again until we all recognize a responsibility to search for solutions and develop a passion to work toward their implementation.
Carol Wilkerson 3-01-1996
The law is our mutually created instrument to protect impartially the common good and individual rights from abuses by individuals, groups, or the state.
Dee Dee Risher 3-01-1996
The political leaders in place at this time are constructing social policy and vision that is fundamentally destructive of human life and well-being, particularly of those most marginalized by our governmental system.
Tony Campolo 3-01-1996
The Bible gives very clear instructions that Christians should be subject to government authorities (Romans 13:1-4).
Heather Wengerd 3-01-1996
As a social worker at Bread for the City and Zacchaeus Free Clinic, I have had many experiences with those who are suffering.
William O'Brien 3-01-1996
The democratic tradition at its best has always had those who act on conscience in such ways that knowingly defy the immediacy of legal regulation.
Jim Dickerson 3-01-1996
In many ways I feel like a hypocrite in regards to my actions at the Capitol.
Art Laffin 3-01-1986
Guilty of conspiracy. Guilty of damaging government property. Guilty of trespass.
Elizabeth McAlister 5-01-1983
A friend, actually the first of many, once asked me a question: "Why do we choose civil disobedience over the more acceptable forms of protest?" The question seemed incorrect.