CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: The refusal to comply with certain laws considered unjust, as a peaceful form of political protest. In the nineteenth century, the American author Henry David Thoreau wrote “Civil Disobedience,” an important essay justifying such action. In the twentieth century, civil disobedience was exercised by Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for independence in India. Civil disobedience, sometimes called nonviolent resistance or passive resistance, was also practiced by some members of the civil rights movement in the United States, notably Martin Luther King, Jr., to challenge segregation of public facilities.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:51:22 +0000
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