Synonyms for civil disobedience
civ·il dis·obe·di·ence

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"

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1. Ilya Shapiro:

   I don't know if its best thought of as free speech, i think it might be thought of better as what do we take to be acts of civil disobedience.

2. Corey Menafee:

   The employee apologized for his actions and subsequently resigned from The University. The University will not advocate that the employee be prosecuted in connection with this incident and is not seeking restitution. the University could be termed as civil disobedience.

3. Mahathma Gandhi:

   Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty, when the state becomes lawless or corrupt

4. Governor Huckabee:

   That does mean civil disobedience, it means we are obedient to a power that is not only higher than the current government, but a power that was the basis of our government.

5. Howard Zinn:

   Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.