PROTESTwhen people, especially a large group of people, refuse to obey a law in order to protest in a peaceful way against the government 〔尤指大批民众针对政府的〕非暴力反抗,不合作主义,公民抗命
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civil disobedience• Non-cooperation and civil disobedience, as Gandhi understands them, can not be construed as a coercivethreat in this sense.• If he fasted, he was released from jail; if he attemptedcivil disobedience, he was back in again.• Do we intend to commitcivil disobedience?• Would he desist from civil disobedience if he were convinced?• In Pittsburgh, there were a few sit-ins, invasions of churches, minorcivil disobedience.• Nothing in their training or previous experience had accustomed them to this kind of civil disobedience.• It had to be a battle in which his side would fight with a special kind of weapon: civil disobedience.• That there are risksassociated with civil disobedience no one would deny, and among them is the risk of anarchy.