Civil disobedience is a nonviolent, deliberate, and conspicuous violation of a law or social norm, or a violation of the orders of civil authorities, in order to generate publicity and public awareness of an issue. Protesters directly confront the...

Civil disobedience is a protest strategy, arguably invented and certainly popularized by Mahatma Gandhi during his campaigns first against ‘pass book’ laws in South Africa and then against the principle of British rule in India. The idea is...

Civil Disobedience The idea of civil disobedience comes out of the tradition of social and political protest whose best known advocates are the nineteenth-century American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, the Indian reformer Mohandas Gandhi, and...

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. In its most nonviolent form...

Civil Disobedience can be a powerful tool in the hands of the dispossessed and the ignored, as has been demonstrated over the last 100 years in a number of different situations. At the same time, we must be careful not to mistake for...

Congratulations on publishing the excellent article by Peter J. Riga on "Civil Disobedience: The Last Resort" {op-ed, Aug. 23}. It is by far the best concise analysis of the current national situation on abortion that I have seen in a major newspaper. I just...

Yearwood, citing a moral obligation, says that he, along with 270 cities and 350 organizations nationwide, will no longer be passive observers of Bush’s War on Terror. “We are in a time of peril in which people of morals have to stand up. We are...

An Aboriginal town threatened to ban tourists from scaling giant Ayers Rock in central Australia to protest a heavy-handed government crackdown on child abuse in Aboriginal areas, a local leader said Tuesday.The threat came from the leaders of Mutitjulu, the Aboriginal township in the shadow...

The theory of civil disobedience, as defined and practiced by Henry David Thoreau, Ghandi, and Martin Luther King Jr., and its history in the United States, including the civil rights movement and protests of the Vietnam War.

Questions when civil disobedience should be condoned. Includes references to Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson, Lewis Van Dusen wrote Civil Disobedience: Destroyer of Democracy, abortion articles, and Martin Luther King and the Letter from Birhmingham Jail.

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