civil disobedience, n.All

Civil disobedience is not recommended against basically unjust regimes because they may be aroused to 'more repressive measures if the calculation of advantages points in this direction.

Civil disobedience is a form of address to the sense of justice of the community and should not exert pressure on the state by non-cooperation of the kind that gandhi commended.

Civil disobedience is part of the communication between the weak and strong publics of civil and political society. It is important in that it serves to reassure minorities that decisions are not fixed.

Civil disobedience is an illegal act, usually on the part of collective actors, that is public, principled, and symbolic in character, involving primarily nonviolent means of protest, and an appeal to the capacity for reason and the sense of justice of the populace.

Civil disobedience is the obligation for anyone in a free society to break the law when the laws are unjust.

Civil disobedience is a public, non-violent, conscientious yet political act contrary to law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government'. The civil disobedient should submit themselves to punishment.

Civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if one believes that law is unjust.

Civil disobedience is not about submitting voluntarily to the legal penalty in unjust regimes, for to so submit would 'not only be to play into the hands of forces that he believes cannot be trusted, but also to express a recognition of the legitimacy of the constitution to which he is opposed.