We’ve seen numerous examples of the benefits of civil disobedience over time, from Gandhi’s campaign for independence from the British Empire (e.g.: the Salt March), to the Civil Rights ...

Intelligent Disobedience. ... Civil disobedience when done well is intelligent and can be on the grandest of Gandhi-esque scales. ... don’t date that type of girl,” and so on.

Explain to your students that there are multiple types of civil disobedience (peaceful and violent, public and private, etc.), and that during this lesson, they will be looking at one example in ...

Civil disobedience is a form of nonviolent protest characterized by a refusal to comply with the demands of authorities. It can include a refusal to pay taxes, strikes, refusing to draft to the ...

Civil disobedience is a constant of history. The Boston Tea Party was a violent symbolic demonstration against British tyranny in 1773 that preceded the American Revolutionary War.

A reader spells out the type of civil disobedience employed by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr 'I Have A Dream': Martin Luther King Jr addressing the March On Washington at the Lincoln ...

The first example of civil disobedience in the Western philosophical tradition dates to the 399 B.C. trial and execution of Socrates, an ancient Greek moral philosopher.