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Civil disobedience   /sˈɪvəl dˌɪsəbˈidiəns/   Listen
Civil disobedience

noun
1.
A group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination).





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"Civil disobedience" Quotes from Famous Books



... plea that the man was master within his own house. But the Assyrian case was worse. This torture was there applied, not upon a sudden vindictive impulse, but in cold blood, to a simple case apparently of civil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we consider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection between Assyria and Palestine, how many things (in war especially) were transferred mediately through the intervening tribes (all habitually cruel), from the people on the Tigris to those on the Jordan, ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey


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