The American tradition of civil disobedience: a response to Henry David Thoreau, by H.
Randolph and leaders of his persuasion relied not so much on legal eloquence in their representations to the federal government as on an understanding of bloc voting in key districts and the implicit threat of civil disobedience.
The black press, for the most part, applauded Randolph's analysis of the mood of Negroes, but shied away from the threat of civil disobedience.
Perhaps this is the point at which to insert a footnote on Henry Thoreau, whose essay on "Civil Disobedience" is said to have influenced Gandhi.
Mass resistance, including some forms of civil disobedience, became popular as the best way to achieve racial change.
When laws, themselves, were unjust, nonviolent resistance could engage in civil disobedience as a means of challenging those laws.
They participated in a kind of civil disobedience.
In a Senate comittee inquiry, Senator Wayne Morse from Oregon suggested to him that such civil disobedience in wartime could well be viewed as treason and not merely as civil disobedience.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil disobedience" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
