Sentences with phrase «nonviolent civil disobedience»

In King's vision of the campaign, thousands of Americans who had been abandoned by the economy would create a tent city on the National Mall, demand action from Congress, and engage in nonviolent civil disobedience until their voices were heard.

The power of sanctuary comes from the power of nonviolent civil disobedience.

Usually a decision to grant sanctuary is accompanied by a commitment by the clergy and congregation to other techniques of nonviolent civil disobedience, such as 24 hour vigils and sit - in blockades.

In fact, I have openly and explicitly called for nonviolent civil disobedience against mountaintop removal coal mining in my home state of West Virginia.

After the incident, Anjali learns the preaching of Gandhi's nonviolent civil disobedience.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the civil rights movement promoted, not rage and disruption, but nonviolent civil disobedience, accepting the penalties imposed under what protesters deemed unjust laws in order to awaken consciences to the injustice of those laws.

Not exact matches

But apparently his way of nonviolent love was not at all incompatible with protesting police brutality or engaging in civil disobedience in a nonviolent fashion.

As a nonviolent act of civil disobedience escalates into a stand - off with law enforcement officials, issues such as homelessness, mental illness, and drug addiction are explored.

Earth First's brand of civil disobedience - frequently ill - tempered, not always nonviolent, and often coolly self - righteous - seems to be increasingly popular these days.

A PBS lesson plan on civil disobedience, packaged with the video, «A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict,» says that Gandhi's method of nonviolence had three parts: «identify an unjust law, refuse to obey it, and accept the consequences.»

In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means.

Some have used civil disobedience in particular — I circulated the call for arrestees at the start of the Keystone XL pipeline demonstrations in 2011, and observers said the resulting two weeks of nonviolent direct action resulted in more arrests than any such demonstration on any issue in many years.

I'll wager that most successful 21st century civil disobedience will be nonviolent and creative.