Definitions for civil disobedience
civ·il dis·obe·di·ence

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1. civil disobediencenoun

   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"

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1. civil disobediencenoun

   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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1. Civil disobedience

   Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hence, civil disobedience is sometimes equated with peaceful protests or nonviolent resistance.Henry David Thoreau's essay Resistance to Civil Government, published posthumously as Civil Disobedience, popularized the term in the US, although the concept itself has been practiced longer before. It has inspired leaders such as Susan B. Anthony of the U.S. women's suffrage movement in the late 1800s, Saad Zaghloul in the 1910s culminating in Egyptian Revolution of 1919 against British Occupation, and Mahatma Gandhi in 1920s India in their protests for Indian independence against the British Empire. Martin Luther King Jr.'s and James Bevel's peaceful protests during the civil rights movement in the 1960s United States contained important aspects of civil disobedience. Although civil disobedience is rarely justifiable in court, 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 moment expressing the very highest respect for the law."

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1. civil disobedience

   Civil disobedience is a form of protest in which people deliberately and openly disobey a law or policy they believe to be unjust or unethical. This is typically a nonviolent action, conducted in a way to draw attention to the issue and to evoke change. It often involves accepting the legal penalties for the action as part of the protest. Examples can include sit-ins, strikes, or refusing to follow specific government directives.

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1. Civil disobedience

   Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is commonly, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance. It is one form of civil resistance. In one view it could be said that it is compassion in the form of respectful disagreement.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of civil disobedience in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of civil disobedience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of civil disobedience in a Sentence

1. Robin Krawitz:

   The man put his life on the line and the life of his family on the line to do work that was illegal at the time, we can look back and say that our system was wrong. He was not wrong, he was practicing civil disobedience.

2. Joshua Wong:

   I choose to plead guilty in this case to show, as an organizer of civil disobedience, I am willing to bear legal responsibility, although there's a chance I might be put in jail, I have no regrets.

3. Ilya Shapiro:

   I don't know if its best thought of as free speech, i think it might be thought of better as what do we take to be acts of civil disobedience.

4. Father Massimo Biancalani:

   Salvini's intentions are ideological and electorally motivated, unfortunately people fall for it and the immigrant becomes the scapegoat. We need civil disobedience and it's important for secular and religious institutions to open their doors to welcome these homeless migrants.

5. Howard Zinn:

   Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=civil disobedience
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=civil disobedience