civil disobedience

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Synonyms for civil disobedience

noun passive resistance

noun. obstruction, antagonism

noun. nonviolent protest

noun. opposition

coined 1866 by Thoreau as title of an essay originally published (1849) as "Resistance to Civil Government."

Trust in our government will end the current civil disobedience.

On the 30th March civil disobedience had not even been started.

That may be civil disobedience if it is peacefully carried out.

Both were trained at civil disobedience through looting their own state and factories.

But I have found to my cost that civil disobedience requires far greater preliminary training and self-control.