Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering without the intoxicating excitement of killing. Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent. Disobedience to be civil implies discipline, thought, care, attention. Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence.
Coercion is inhuman.
Nonviolent action without the cooperation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result. The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation. Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused. Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.