There were those among them who had been arrested
because of civil disobedience in protest against nuclear research or U. S. involvement in Nicaragua.
Not exact matches
It reminds us that the reception
of Bonhoeffer in his native land has by no means been positive, not least
because of his act
of civil disobedience in participating in the abortive conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944.
While she complained, according to Education Week, that the school district should have granted her a leave
of absence, a letter writer to the newspaper reminded the teacher
of her history: «While
civil disobedience and legal protest have long been used as ways
of attracting attention to a cause,
civil disobedience is unique
because it has always carried with it the obvious risk
of arrest and possible imprisonment.»
It is
because of this tendency that nonviolence should be at the very core
of any understanding
of justified
civil disobedience.
Because the only way they can gain a «teachable moment» about protests and
civil disobedience (especially those
of civil rights leaders
of the last century) is to suffer some form
of punishment.
Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original
Because movement conservatives
of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was,
because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original
because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation,
because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original
because of their concerns about communism and the expansion
of federal government, and
because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original
because they viewed the
civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.
Likewise, I think the Sierra Club's endorsement
of civil disobedience was an important move
because it broke a long precedent, which tells people this problem - climate change - really is different.
Similarly, one might argue that geoengineering as
civil disobedience can avoid the objections to self - defense
because it purports to benefit all victims
of climate change.