civil disobedience
A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain…A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental.
» It was civil disobedience by labor that gave us our current rights.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental.
ziviler Ungehorsam
гражда́нское неповинове́ниеgraždánskoje nepovinovénije
громадя́нська непоко́раhromadjánsʹka nepokóra
- a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)
Examples
4 sentencesIt was civil disobedience by labor that gave us our current rights.
The civil disobedience of the dead was heroic; the civil disobedience of the living is extremist and criminal.
That's not civil disobedience. That's rioting.
deDas ist kein ziviler Ungehorsam, sondern ein Aufstand. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Gandhi's strategy of civil disobedience only worked because of colonial India's racial homogeneity versus its British overlords.
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