Civil Disobedience Synonyms

Nonviolent opposition to a government policy or law by refusing to comply with it, on the grounds of conscience
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. noncooperation
  2. passive resistance
  3. nonviolent resistance
  4. protest
  5. resistance movement

Civil Disobedience Sentence Examples

  • At some sites there will be acts of nonviolent civil disobedience.

  • In London, several days of protests will see a range of actions from mass civil disobedience to street parties.

  • In an attempt to put the theory of electronic civil disobedience into practice he moved to New York City in 1991.

  • Another purpose civil disobedience serves is to make society so ungovernable that the authorities must give in to restore order.

  • To practice civil disobedience is not a choice to be made lightly.

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