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Civil Disobedience

Published on Nov 15, 2016

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Civil Disobedience

Fiona Ryan

Civil Disobedience: the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.

Change

  • "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" -Martin Luther King Jr.

Events

  • Civil Rights
  • Labor Unions
  • Indian Independence Movement
  • North Dakota Pipeline

Civil Rights

  • Rosa Parks
  • 1960's sit-ins
  • March on Washington

Labor Unions

  • 1768 New York tailors
  • 1913 Ludlow Masacre
  • The Great Strike 1877

Indian Independence Movement

  • Salt March
  • Hunger Strike 1932
  • "Award us for it what punishment you like; we will put up with it" (Gandhi 148).

ND Pipeline

  • Unjust Law
  • Two Ways
  • Violence

Answer to Everything?

  • Not always the answer
  • War

Bibliography

  • Gandhi, Mohandas K. "On Civil Disobedience." On Civil Disobedience, 27 July 1916, p. 1. "The Great Railroad Strike." Digital History, www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3189. Accessed 17 Nov. 2016.
  • "The Ludlow Masacre." PBS, WGBH, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/ primary-resources/rockefellers-ludlow/. Accessed 17 Nov. 2016.

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