Definition of civil disobedience Civil disobedience
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What does civil disobedience mean?
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| civil disobedience - a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination); "Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience" | ||
| direct action a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands | ||
| sit-in a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move | ||
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Wiktionary 
- civil disobedience (Noun)
A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental.
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civil disobedience
Deliberate, open, and peaceful violation of particular laws, decrees, regulations, military or police orders, or other governmental directives.
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Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence. It is one of the primary tactics of nonviolent resistance.
The American author Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay "Civil Disobedience", originally titled "Resistance to Civil Government".
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi) used non-violent civil disobedience in South Africa in a campaign for civil rights for the people who came from India and lived in South Africa. This campaign was from 1893-1914. When Gandhi returned to India, he used civil disobedience in the campaign for the independence of India from the British rule.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and young activists in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s also adopted civil disobedience techniques, during and after the Vietnam War. -
Thoreau
Civil Disobedience ("Resistance to Civil Government") is a text by Henry David Thoreau. It was first published in 1849 and it says that people should not allow a government to ignore their wishes. It is a text to discusses nonviolent action.
On Civil Disobedience.
In 1848, Thoreau gave lectures at the Concord Lyceum, which had the name "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government". This was the basis for his text which was first published under the title "Resistance to Civil Government" in 1849. He is often quoted as saying that the true place for a just man is in prison. He writes in Civil Disobedience, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison."
