What do we do when conscience and the law are at odds?
Civil Disobedience
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.
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.
Bob Holum 3-01-1996
The rule of law in a free society is an expression of the social contract between the governed and government and between the people and each other.
Joe Roos 3-01-1996
THE OLD TESTAMENT prophets claimed, and the New Testament witnesses affirmed, that a society will be judged (by God) most fundamentally by the way it has treated the poorest and most marginalized in its midst.
Ellen Watkins 3-01-1996
Why would I, a peaceful, usually law-abiding grandmother of four (not even a parking ticket) break the habit of a lifetime and become the "little old lady in tennis shoes"...
Killian Noe 3-01-1996
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.
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.