action of civil disobedience

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• Civil disobedience — For other uses, see Civil disobedience (disambiguation). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a figure known worldwide for advocating non violent civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and …   Wikipedia

• Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) — Henry David Thoreau …   Wikipedia

• civil disobedience — noun 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 • Hypernyms: ↑direct action • Hyponyms: ↑sit in, ↑protest march * * *… …   Useful english dictionary

• civil disobedience — noun 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. We now had no alternative but to… …   Wiktionary

• riots and civil disobedience —    Civil disobedience occurs when a person or group feels morally compelled to publicly break the law, usually without using violence, and is prepared to face the full consequences of the legal system. It is considered justifiable if the law is… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• civil disobedience —    The deliberate act of law breaking either because of disapproval of a particular statute or to direct attention to the overall injustice suffered by particular individuals or groups. Such law breaking is designed to promote justice. It has a… …   Glossary of UK Government and Politics

• civil disobedience — noun (U) action that breaks the law usually taken by a large number of people to protest against something done by the government …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Electronic civil disobedience — Electronic civil disobedience, also known as ECD or cyber civil disobedience, can refer to any type of civil disobedience in which the participants use information technology to carry out their actions. Electronic civil disobedience often… …   Wikipedia

• civil — civ·il / si vəl/ adj [Latin civilis, from civis citizen] 1: concerning, befitting, or applying to individual citizens or to citizens as a whole a civil duty see also civil right 2: marked by public order: peaceable in behavior …   Law dictionary

• Civil disorder — Civil disorder, also known as civil unrest or civil strife, is a broad term that is typically used by law enforcement to describe one or more forms of disturbance caused by a group of people.[1] Civil disturbance is typically a symptom of, and a… …   Wikipedia

• Civil resistance — Moscow, 19 August 1991: Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, standing on top of a tank in front of the building of the RSFSR’s Council of Ministers and reading a statement urging people to resist the… …   Wikipedia