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 For the essay by Henry David Thoreau , see Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) . Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence....


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979 words, approx. 3 pages 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...
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2,144 words, approx. 7 pages 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...
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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. In its most nonviolent form...




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Civil disobedience.
04/01/2002: 1,838 words, approx. 6 pages 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 civil...
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Abortion and Civil Disobedience
09/01/1991: 555 words, approx. 2 pages 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...
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Hip Hop Caucus President to Use Civil Disobedience at White House
9/19/2006: 285 words, approx. 1 pages 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...
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Civil Disobedience in America
2,161 words, approx. 7 pages
 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.
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Civil Disobedience
1,789 words, approx. 6 pages
 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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