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civil disobedience
 
Noun civil disobedience has 1 sense
  1. civil disobedience - a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination); "Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience"
    --1 is a kind of     direct action
    --1 has particulars: sit-in; protest march
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