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

• SatyagrahaRelated: Refusing unjust laws is one way satyagrahis confront authority without using violence.

• Tyranny of the majorityRelated: It offers a form of resistance when ordinary political channels fail to protect rights.

• Alice PaulNarrower topic: Paul used arrests and imprisonment to expose the government’s unequal treatment of women.

• Birmingham campaignNarrower topic: The campaign used disciplined lawbreaking to contest segregation and expose its enforcement.

• Environmental activismRelated: Environmental activists use nonviolent lawbreaking to dramatize contested projects or policies.

• Sudanese RevolutionNarrower topic: Strikes and other forms of noncooperation increased pressure on Bashir’s government.

• The Hunger GamesRelated: Katniss’s defiance of the arena’s rules makes resistance visible to Panem.

• Mattachine SocietyRelated: It captures a more confrontational tactic adopted by later gay rights activists.

• NecessityRelated: Protesters sometimes claim that urgent injustice makes breaking a law necessary.

• Political extremismCompared with: Breaking a law to challenge injustice does not necessarily reject democracy or endorse radical coercion.

• Christian anarchismRelated: It can express resistance to state commands while avoiding an attempt to seize government power.

• Individual rightsRelated: Claims of violated rights have often motivated nonviolent resistance to government policy.

• Law (legal system)Related: It exposes conflicts between legal obligation and demands for moral or political change.

• NonresistanceCompared with: It resists authority through intentional lawbreaking, whereas nonresistance may counsel submission.

• ProhibitionRelated: Public refusal to comply can challenge a prohibition and draw attention to its effects.

• ProtestBroader topic: It is a protest tactic that makes willingness to accept legal consequences part of the message.

• We Shall OvercomeRelated: Singing the song together helped activists express resolve during nonviolent direct action.

• Anti-authoritarianismRelated: It offers a way to resist coercive rules without relying on state authority.

• AntigoneRelated: Antigone’s deliberate burial defiance is a lasting dramatic model for resistance to authority.

• Campaign for Nuclear DisarmamentRelated: Nonviolent lawbreaking featured in direct-action campaigns against nuclear weapons.

• Free Speech MovementRelated: Sit-ins and arrests made rule-breaking a central tactic in the movement.

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

• GreenpeaceCompared with: Some Greenpeace actions involve deliberate legal breaches, though not all direct action does.

• 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.

• Mau movementNarrower topic: The Mau used noncooperation to weaken the administration’s authority without waging war.

• Political martyrdomCompared with: Political martyrdom concerns symbolic meaning after death, unlike a living protest strategy.

• VandalismCompared with: Protest damage may be framed as political resistance, while still meeting legal definitions of vandalism.

• 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.

• Legal reformCompared with: It seeks reform by challenging law from outside ordinary legal channels.

• Little Rock NineCompared with: The students sought access under court protection rather than organizing a refusal of law.

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

• Public orderCompared with: It tests whether legal order should prevail over principled resistance to injustice.

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

• Judgment at NurembergCompared with: It offers a counterpoint to the judges’ compliance with unjust laws.

• 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.

• Riot controlCompared with: It may involve unlawful conduct without the violence that defines a riot.

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

• Tax resistanceNarrower topic: Tax resistance is often framed as civil disobedience when the refusal is deliberate and publicly defended.

• 2014 Hong Kong protestsNarrower topic: Occupying roads made nonviolent lawbreaking a central tactic.

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

• ExtremismCompared with: Its nonviolent methods and appeal to public principles distinguish it from coercive extremism.

• 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.

• Nathuram GodseCompared with: Gandhi used civil disobedience as a political method that Godse rejected.

• 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.