civil disobedience

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anarchism and student movements
- In anarchism: Contemporary anarchism
Gandhi, Kasturba
- In Kasturba Gandhi
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- In Mahatma Gandhi: Resistance and results
King
- In Malcolm X: Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
Lutheranism
- In Lutheranism: Church and state
National Woman’s Party
- In National Woman’s Party
propaganda
- In propaganda: The reactors (audiences)
Thoreau
- In Henry David Thoreau: Move to Walden Pond of Henry David Thoreau

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Civil Disobedience in Times of Pandemic: Clarifying Rights and Duties.	Yamini Chauhan	Oct 29, 2024
	Add new Web site: Osgoode Digital Commons - The Right to Civil Disobedience.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 25, 2024
	Add new Web site: CORE - Civil Disobedience and Natural Law.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 20, 2024
	Add new Web site: Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal / Gandhi Book Centre - Civil Disobedience in Political Theory and Social Practice.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 27, 2023
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Civil Disobedience in Times of Pandemic: Clarifying Rights and Duties.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jul 21, 2023
	Add new Web site: Academia - Civil Disobedience.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jun 09, 2023
	Add new Web site: Social Science LibreTexts - Civil Disobedience.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 12, 2023
	Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Civil Disobedience.	Aakanksha Gaur	Sep 28, 2022
	Article revised and updated.	Brian Duignan	Mar 10, 2020
	Add new Web site: Olympic.org - Biography of Christa Luding-Rothenburger.	Yamini Chauhan	Dec 19, 2013
	Add new Web site: British Library - Art, music and popular culture.	Yamini Chauhan	Dec 19, 2013
	Media added.	J.E. Luebering	Dec 02, 2011
	Article revised and updated.	J.E. Luebering	Dec 02, 2011
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998