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

• 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.

• Insurrectionary anarchismCompared with: Insurrectionary direct action need not accept civil disobedience’s nonviolent or law-focused limits.

• 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.

• Shirin EbadiCompared with: Ebadi’s emphasis on legal advocacy differs from strategies that deliberately break contested laws.

• 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.

• AgorismCompared with: Agorism emphasizes building alternative exchange, unlike protest centered on publicly challenging a law.

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

• Carrie NationNarrower topic: Her illegal property destruction raises questions about protest outside legal channels.

• CivicsCompared with: It tests the boundary between civic responsibility to law and resistance to injustice.

• 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.

• Fred KorematsuNarrower topic: Korematsu’s refusal to obey the exclusion order became an act of legal and political resistance.

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

• Inna ShevchenkoNarrower topic: FEMEN’s disruptive actions use deliberate rule-breaking to draw attention to political demands.

• James C. ScottCompared with: Its organized publicity contrasts with the covert, often uncoordinated resistance Scott studied.

• Oath of officeCompared with: Conflicts between sworn duties and conscience can raise questions about refusal and resistance.

• 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.

• ApoliticismCompared with: It rejects political passivity by making dissent an explicit public act.

• Carl von OssietzkyCompared with: Ossietzky’s challenge relied on publishing evidence rather than organized lawbreaking.

• 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.

• MardalsfossenNarrower topic: The Mardøla protesters used nonviolent lawbreaking to challenge the development.

• Mob ruleCompared with: It distinguishes disciplined protest from coercive crowd action that disregards legal accountability.

• 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.

• Social outburstCompared with: Civil disobedience is planned around principled lawbreaking rather than sudden collective expression.