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

• George Floyd protestsRelated: Some demonstrators used sit-ins, road blockades, and other disruptive tactics.

• Kapp PutschRelated: Officials and workers’ refusal to serve the coup helped undermine its claim to govern.

• Limited governmentRelated: It tests whether legal limits and rights protections are meaningful when officials violate them.

• WaldenRelated: Thoreau’s later essay develops political arguments already foreshadowed by Walden’s criticism of conformity.

• Catholic Worker MovementRelated: Catholic Worker activists have used it to oppose war and other forms of state violence.

• Individual libertyRelated: It raises the question of when conscience warrants resisting state coercion.

• Political theoryRelated: It puts political obligation and the legitimacy of law to practical test.

• CourageRelated: Participants may accept arrest or punishment to act on political and moral convictions.

• LibertyRelated: It raises the question of whether liberty includes principled resistance to unjust authority.

• Ralph AbernathyRelated: Campaigns Abernathy joined used disciplined lawbreaking to confront segregation.

• Tawakkol KarmanRelated: It is one tactic within the broader repertoire of nonviolent political action.

• Advocacy groupRelated: Some groups use nonviolent lawbreaking to dramatize a cause and compel attention.

• Joshua WongRelated: Student protest tactics associated with Wong raised questions about legality and political resistance.

• Martin SheenRelated: Sheen has used nonviolent civil disobedience in political and environmental demonstrations.

• Student activismRelated: Some student campaigns use rule-breaking to expose or challenge policies.

• William O. DouglasRelated: Douglas defended the constitutional space for dissent and protest against government policy.

• Abdul Ghaffar KhanRelated: Khudai Khidmatgar campaigns used disciplined defiance to challenge colonial authority.

• EthicsRelated: It arises when moral obligations are judged to outweigh compliance with law.

• Mario SavioRelated: Savio defended rule-breaking as a response to restrictions he considered unjust.

• Rule utilitarianismRelated: It tests when breaking an established rule can support better consequences for society.

• ActivismRelated: It makes a disputed rule visible while accepting legal consequences to contest its legitimacy.

• Anarcho-pacifismRelated: It is one method for resisting state commands while maintaining a nonviolent discipline.

• The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasRelated: Walking away resembles refusal, while leaving does not directly free the child or reform the city.

• Agnes ChowRelated: Street protest and nonviolent resistance formed a method distinct from Chow’s electoral work.

• ApologyRelated: Socrates’ refusal to abandon philosophy raises questions about dissent under civic authority.

• Dick GregoryRelated: Gregory used arrest and protest as tactics in campaigns against segregation and discrimination.

• FemenRelated: Femen activists use disruptive actions that can involve trespass, arrest, or prosecution.

• Good and evilRelated: It examines when breaking a rule can be morally justified.

• William KunstlerRelated: Many of Kunstler’s clients faced prosecution after protests framed as civil disobedience.

• Anti-patriotismRelated: It demonstrates how principled resistance can reject obedience framed as patriotic duty.

• Anti-statismRelated: Civil disobedience challenges state commands while exposing the moral limits of legal authority.

• Civil libertarianismRelated: It raises the question of how people should respond when law itself threatens liberty.

• Conscientious objection to military taxationRelated: Withholding taxes can make the objection a deliberate act of nonviolent lawbreaking.

• Gen Z protestsRelated: Some youth movements use nonviolent lawbreaking to dramatize grievances and pressure authorities.

• Gisèle HalimiRelated: The Manifesto of the 343 applied this tactic by openly admitting to illegal abortions.

• June 2025 Gaza Freedom FlotillaRelated: The voyage used a conspicuous act of defiance to contest restrictions on Gaza.

• Legal theoryRelated: It exposes tensions between legal obligation, political authority, and moral duty.

• Monégasque RevolutionRelated: Public demonstrations and collective pressure were means of contesting princely rule.

• Natural rights and legal rightsRelated: It tests whether moral obligations can justify resisting laws that violate claimed rights.

• Philosophy of lawRelated: It puts legal obligation and the moral limits of obedience to a direct test.

• Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemicRelated: Some demonstrators knowingly violated restrictions as a form of political protest.