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Civil disobedience is the active and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government (or any other authority).
Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power, usually without resorting to physical violence. Civil disobedience may also refer to: Civil Disobedience (Thoreau), an essay by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1849
I found that even civil disobedience failed to convey the full meaning of the struggle. I therefore adopted the phrase civil resistance." [ 47 ] It is a near-synonym for nonviolent resistance , civil disobedience , people power and satyagraha .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. 1849 essay by Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience First page of "Resistance to Civil Government" as published in Aesthetic Papers, in 1849. Author Henry David Thoreau Language English Publication place United States Media type Print Text Civil Disobedience at Wikisource This article ...
Civil discourse and civil disobedience are just that, "civil". Though one aims to bring change by communication while the other aims to bring change by disobedience. On the note that civil disobedience is a tool to expose unjust laws, late Congress Representative John Lewis lived by this mantra. Lewis said it was important to engage in "good ...
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Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. [1]
Civil disobedience and non-cooperation as practised under satyagraha are based on the "law of suffering", [22] a doctrine that the endurance of suffering is a means to an end. This end usually implies a moral uplift or progress of an individual or society.