'Civil disobedience has been used as an effective means of bringing about social change throughout history. Thoreau/ Gandhi/ Martin Luther King, Jr. all practiced nonviolent civil disobedience. It allows us to follow the 'moral law,' and it attracts media to the event enabling us to tell the whole world what really goes on behind closed doors. Many expressed dismay at our willingness to break the laws which we consider to be unjust, to them this quote from Thoreau in his famous essay 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. If a law is of such nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law! Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.'' (FoA's 'Act-tionLine')
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If the government fails to fulfill these conditions, the Communist party reserves the right to vote against the budget in subsequent readings, ... civil disobedience and protest across the whole country.
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If the elections are free and fair, we will respect the result. If they are not, we will escalate our political struggle even if it means a call to political civil disobedience.
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I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
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As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's li...
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That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience
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