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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 June 2024. 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 is ...
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]
Although civil disobedience is rarely justifiable in court, [3] King regarded civil disobedience to be a display and practice of reverence for law: "Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that ...
The declaration vows civil disobedience if Christians feel that their rights to civil liberties of free exercise of religion and freedom of speech are being violated. It states that Christianity has taught through the centuries that civil disobedience is not only permitted, but sometimes required, [8] and refers to Martin Luther King Jr.'s defense of the rights and duties of religious ...
Civil disobedience has served as a major tactic of nationalist movements in former colonies in Africa and Asia prior to their gaining independence. Most notably Mahatma Gandhi developed civil disobedience as an anti-colonialist tool. Gandhi stated "Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen to be civil, implies discipline, thought ...
An act of civil disobedience includes occupying a campus building without permission, Thacher said. Civil disobedience also includes sitting on a public road to block traffic. It can be a ...
At the time, he said, the main acts of civil disobedience were calls for “divestments from South Africa, and occupying buildings, as well as pitching tents, was one of the techniques.” Police ...
Crises of the Republic was the third of Arendt's anthologies, and as the subtitle Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution indicates, consists of four interconnected essays on contemporary American politics and the crises it faced in the 1960s and 1970s.