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The 139 pages that link to Civil disobedience, each with the reason it gives.

• Civil Rights MovementRelated: Sit-ins and other protests challenged segregation rules directly.

• Political legitimacyRelated: It challenges particular commands while often appealing to deeper principles of legitimate rule.

• Nonviolent resistanceRelated: It turns resistance into an open breach of rules whose legitimacy is being challenged.

• Martin Luther King Jr.Related: King defended breaking segregation laws openly as a way to expose their injustice.

• Women's suffrageRelated: Some activists used arrests and lawbreaking to force public attention onto disenfranchisement.

• Mahatma GandhiRelated: Gandhi used principled lawbreaking to challenge colonial authority.

• Civil libertiesRelated: It often arises when people believe legal institutions fail to protect basic freedoms.

• PacifismRelated: Pacifists have used nonviolent lawbreaking to resist militarism and war.

• Direct actionRelated: It confronts authority through principled lawbreaking rather than relying only on formal appeals.

• Hannah ArendtRelated: Arendt defended collective civil disobedience as a political practice rooted in association.

• Political violenceCompared with: It contests authority openly through lawbreaking rather than physical violence.

• Anti-imperialismRelated: It lets anti-imperialist campaigns challenge colonial authority through mass noncooperation.

• Legal positivismRelated: Recognizing an unjust rule as law leaves open whether it deserves obedience.

• WhistleblowingCompared with: It challenges a rule through open resistance rather than reporting organizational wrongdoing.

• Conscientious objectionRelated: Some objectors accept legal penalties rather than comply with a duty they reject.

• Ralph Waldo EmersonRelated: Emerson’s defense of conscience informed his opposition to slavery and support for resistance.

• Political philosophyRelated: It tests when resistance to unjust law can be politically and morally justified.

• BoycottRelated: A boycott may be lawful abstention, whereas civil disobedience centrally involves breaking a rule.

• AuthorityRelated: It tests whether legal commands deserve obedience when their authority is contested.

• ConscienceRelated: Conscience can lead people to break laws they judge morally wrong.

• General strikeCompared with: General strikes can involve unlawful conduct, but their defining action is a work stoppage.

• ACT UPRelated: Some ACT UP protests used arrest risk to dramatize government inaction.

• Consent of the governedRelated: Refusal can challenge a government’s claim to represent or be authorized by its people.

• Moral disagreementRelated: It arises when citizens judge legal obligations to conflict with moral duties.

• Propaganda of the deedCompared with: Both make a political argument through conduct, but civil disobedience relies on openly nonviolent lawbreaking.

• Quit India MovementRelated: Quit India drew on mass noncooperation, though its decentralized protests also included violent acts.

• Bayard RustinRelated: Rustin practiced civil disobedience in protest campaigns, while his strategic work also depended on legal coordination and negotiation.

• Democratic LegitimacyCompared with: It tests whether citizens may resist decisions they regard as unjust despite democratic procedures.

• NAACPCompared with: The NAACP has often favored litigation and institutional advocacy over direct-action tactics associated with civil disobedience.

• Power (social and political)Related: It is a tactic for contesting authority and exposing the limits of compliance.

• Civil religionRelated: Dissenters may challenge a state by invoking its own professed civic ideals.

• Political authorityCompared with: It tests whether an authority's legal commands deserve obedience when they are unjust.

• Rosa ParksNarrower topic: Parks’s refusal became a widely recognized example of nonviolent resistance to segregation.

• Women's rights movementRelated: Some suffrage campaigns used arrests and lawbreaking to expose unequal treatment.

• Civic virtueCompared with: It shows how civic responsibility can require resisting, rather than obeying, government.

• Political obligationCompared with: It asks when a moral cause can justify disobeying law.

• Salt MarchRelated: Making prohibited salt turned resistance to the salt laws into direct action.

• Anti-war movementRelated: Anti-war activists have used it to disrupt military institutions and contest state policy.

• FreedomRelated: It shows how people may invoke freedom to challenge laws they regard as unjust.

• Freedom of conscienceRelated: It overlaps when conscience motivates protest, but aims at public legal change.

• NonviolenceBroader topic: Breaking selected laws can expose injustice while keeping the protest nonviolent.

• Peace movementBroader topic: Peace activists have used it to resist conscription, nuclear weapons, and military operations.

• RightsRelated: Rights claims can motivate resistance when legal institutions fail to protect them.

• A. Philip RandolphNarrower topic: Randolph’s proposed mass demonstration applied nonviolent public pressure to federal policy.

• First IntifadaNarrower topic: Tax resistance, boycotts, and strikes made noncooperation a central tactic.

• Freedom of assemblyRelated: Some assemblies combine protected protest with conduct that may be prosecuted separately.

• ObedienceCompared with: It shows when principled refusal to obey can challenge unjust authority.

• Daniel EllsbergRelated: Ellsberg defended his unauthorized disclosure as resistance to an unjust war.

• Defiance CampaignRelated: The campaign’s volunteers openly broke selected laws and accepted arrest.

• Fundamental rightsRelated: Rights violations have often motivated nonviolent resistance and demands for legal change.