Antonyms for civil disobedienceciv·il dis·obe·di·ence

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Princeton's WordNet

1. civil disobediencenoun

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

   "Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience"

How to use civil disobedience in a sentence?

1. Robin Krawitz:

   The man put his life on the line and the life of his family on the line to do work that was illegal at the time, we can look back and say that our system was wrong. He was not wrong, he was practicing civil disobedience.

2. Saw Taw Nee:

   Mostly they involved in Civil Disobedience Movement and they dare not to stay any longer in their place and they are being sought for arrest, most are very young people.

3. Corey Menafee:

   The University could be termed as civil disobedience, but there’s always better ways of doing things like The University than just destroying things. The University was n’t The University, and I had no right to do The University.

4. Thomas Gokey:

   No big change like this ever happens without mass mobilization ; without ordinary people getting organized to take direct action and engage in civil disobedience.

5. Kevin McCall:

   We just finished performing as we call civil disobedience for justice. Sometimes you need to do things that turn up the temperature for justice, you have to do extreme things … to get justice.

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