What is civil disobedience?

Answer 1

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. Civil disobedience has been used in nonviolent resistance movements in India in the fight against British colonialism, South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement in the fight against segregation and disfranchisement, and Europe as well as in the Scandinavian resistance against Nazi occupation.
Civil disobedience and religion
Many who practice civil disobedience do so out of religious faith, and clergy often participate in or lead actions of civil disobedience. A notable example is Philip Berrigan, a Roman Catholic priest who was arrested dozens of times in acts of civil disobedience in antiwar protests. Also, groups like Soulforce, who favor non-discrimination and equal rights for gays and lesbians, have engaged in acts of civil disobedience to reform church positions and public policy.

Answer 2

An Event Status, allways hastens the truth one way or the other especially when inacted to cause for the right reason by good men, and it is our lagecy and if fact our duty if such a need especially for a greater good or to protect the inocent is present, if hastened up the flagpole - might just be the flagpole itself on which is placed the star spangled banner that at the end of the day is as still there. After all is the home of the brave and the land of the free?

Answer 3

What is civil disobedience?

It's Pointless.

CD is meant to draw attention to injustice. In today's climate of spin-doctoring & information control, acts of civil disobedience don't even rate 30 seconds with no pictures on the evening news.

The last protest I saw covered in any depth by the mainstream press was that nauseating Terry whatshername vigil by the psycho-Cons...and even that protest failed [thank the gods], and that poor girl was allowed to die.

Stop.
Think.
Resist.

Answer 4

The active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence, i.e. Ghandi's non violent movement, Civil Rights Movement, and South Africa's movement against Apartheid.

Answer 5

nonviolent protest: the deliberate breaking of a law by ordinary citizens, carried out as nonviolent protest or passive resistance
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Answer 6

Breaking an existing law to prove a point. A point typically higher than your own selfish interests.

Answer 7

going against a law or something you belive is wrong but in a civil way, without violence like Gandhi did.

Answer 8

to win a football game and run on the field

Answer 9

Willfully breaking a law for the reason that you believe that law is unjust.

Answer 10

That's the name criminals give crime.