Civil+Disobedience+of+Individual+vs.+Society

"Civil disobedience is the deliberate disobeying of a law to advance a moral principle or change government policy. It may be confined to breaking only particular laws which are considered unjust, as in the civil rights movement in the USA in the 1960s. Alternatively civil disobedience can include breaking other laws as a way of drawing attention to the perceived injustice, for example by damage to property, non-payment of fines or taxes, obstruction of building work, and trespassing. Those who practice either kind of civil disobedience are willing to accept the consequences of their actions as a means of furthering their cause. Henry David Thoreau first articulated the tenets of civil disobedience in an 1849 essay, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”. He argued that when conscience and law do not coincide, individuals have the obligation to promote justice by disobeying the law."

"When is it justifiable for protesters and activists to break the law for the sake of their cause?"

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