0 the act by a group of people of refusing to obey laws or pay taxes, as a peaceful way of expressing their disapproval of those laws or taxes and in order to persuade the government to change them:
Gandhi and Martin Luther King both led campaigns of civil disobedience to try to persuade the authorities to change their policies.
1 the refusal of citizens to obey certain laws or pay taxes as a peaceful way to express disapproval of those laws or taxes:
[ U ] Campaigns of civil disobedience forced an end to segregation.
Civil disobedience cannot bring more harm than the good it proclaims.
It seems that the cost through civil disobedience actions that could be imposed on existing firms is not high.
Lower-class women frequently contested the city's efforts to control their activities through strikes, negotiations, petitions to the cabildo and civil disobedience.
The miners were prepared to resort, if not to violence, then to acts of civil disobedience and incursions onto contested land.
Although civil disobedience is sometimes a solitary act, it is most often a form of collective action.
I cannot here address civil disobedience or revenge.
Today, of course, analyses of civil disobedience can be approached philosophically.
Although physicians sometimes engage in civil disobedience, they do not often violate the law in their professional capacities.
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