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Overview

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

Nonviolent resistance

Nonviolent resistance is the practice of achieving goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence. It is largely synonymous with civil resistance...

. It is one form of civil resistance

Civil resistance

The term civil resistance, alongside the term nonviolent resistance, is used to describe political action that relies on the use of non-violent methods by civil groups to challenge a particular power, force, policy or regime. Civil resistance operates through appeals to the adversary, pressure and...

. In one view (in India, known as ahimsa

Ahimsa

Ahimsa is a term meaning to do no harm . The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hims – to strike; himsa is injury or harm, a-himsa is the opposite of this, i.e. non harming or nonviolence. It is an important tenet of the Indian religions...

or satyagraha

Satyagraha

Satyagraha , loosely translated as "insistence on truth satya agraha soul force" or "truth force" is a particular philosophy and practice within the broader overall category generally known as nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. The term "satyagraha" was conceived and developed by Mahatma...

) it could be said that it is compassion

Compassion

Compassion is a virtue — one in which the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy are regarded as a part of love itself, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnection and humanism — foundational to the highest principles in philosophy, society, and personhood.There is an aspect of...

in the form of respectful disagreement.
One of its earliest massive implementations was brought about by Egyptians against the British occupation in the 1919 Revolution

Egyptian Revolution of 1919

The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 was a countrywide revolution against the British occupation of Egypt and Sudan. It was carried out by Egyptians and Sudanese from different walks of life in the wake of the British-ordered exile of revolutionary leader Saad Zaghlul, and other members of the Wafd...

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Unanswered Questions

How and what are some ways to do "Civil Disobedience"? I need examples! ie... standing in front of a truck and not allowing it to cut down trees?

Thoreau's belief that the most immediate need was to?

Is civil disobedience ever justified? I answer this question in my article http://www.suite101.com/content/is-civil-disobedience-ever-justified-a...

What kind of civil disobedience did mexican-americans show during thier civil rights movement.

LIMITATILONS OF CIVIL DISOBIDENCE MOVEMENT

Does anyone know how mohandas gandhi used civil disobedience in india?

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Quotations

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Mohandas Gandhi

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Hannah Arendt, "Civil Disobedience", Crisis of the Republic, (1972)

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison...the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.

Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)|Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Civil disobedience is still disobedience.

Maddox

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