Civil disobedience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 methods...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
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1.1 Features of Civil Disobedience ... Certain features of civil disobedience seem vital not only to its impact upon societies and governments, but also to its status as a potentially justifiable breach of law. ... On Rawls's account of civil disobedience, in a nearly just society, civil disobedients address themselves to...
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-disobedience/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-disobedience/
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Standing up to disobedient government is not civil disobedience ... That will be our greatest civil disobedience. ... Civil disobedience is when you break the law (hence the term disobedience) in protest to government actions. You didn't break the law.
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www.dailypaul.com/node/46761
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"Nonviolent resistance ... is based on the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice. Consequently, the believer in nonviolence has deep faith in the future. ... Background -how it was practiced by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Thoreau and others.
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www.akidsright.org/civil.htm
www.akidsright.org/civil.htm
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Though the law was not strictly enforced, Jackson quietly practiced civil disobedience by having an organized Sunday school class every Sunday afternoon, teaching black children to read, and teaching them the way of salvation.
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www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/williams1.html
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He practiced civil disobedience in his own life and spent a night in jail for his refusal to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican War. (Thoreau was opposed to the practice of slavery in some of the territories involved.) It is thought that this night in jail prompted Thoreau to write Civil Disobedience.
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www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/civildisobedience/context...
www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/civildisobedience/context.html
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Civil Disobedience Originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government" By Henry David Thoreau - 1849 - with annotated text ... While Walden can be applied to almost anyone's life, "Civil Disobedience" is like a venerated architectural landmark: it is preserved and admired, and sometimes visited, but for most of us...
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eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html
eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html
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The history of Civil Disobedience is a long and international one. ... Below are several pages describing some of the history, theory, and practice of civil disobedience. Many of these sections were taken (with love) from the Handbook for Nonviolent Action available from the War Resister's League in New York City.
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