civil disobedience

English

Noun

civil disobedience (uncountable)

1. A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 146:

     We now had no alternative but to resort to civil disobedience, and we embarked in earnest on preparations for mass action.

Translations

active and non-violent refusal to obey

• Arabic: عِصْيان مَدَنيّ
• Catalan: desobediència civil f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 公民不服從 / 公民不服从 (gung¹ man⁴ bat¹ fuk⁶ cung⁴)

  Mandarin: 公民不服從 / 公民不服从 (zh) (gōngmín bùfúcóng)

• Czech: občanská neposlušnost f
• Danish: civil ulydighed c
• Dutch: burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid f
• Faroese: borgaraligt ólýdni f or n
• Finnish: kansalaistottelemattomuus (fi)
• French: désobéissance civile (fr) f
• Georgian: სამოქალაქო დაუმორჩილებლობა (samokalako daumorčilebloba)
• German: ziviler Ungehorsam (de) m
• Greek: πολιτική ανυπακοή f (politikí anypakoḯ)
• Hungarian: polgári engedetlenség
• Icelandic: borgaraleg óhlýðni f
• Irish: easumhlaíocht shibhialta f
• Italian: disobbedienza civile f
• Japanese: 市民的不服従 (しみんてきふふくじゅう, shiminteki fufukujū)
• Korean: 시민 불복종(市民不服從) (simin bulbokjong)
• Malayalam: സിവിൽ നിയമലംഘനം (sivil niyamalaṅghanaṁ)
• Norwegian: sivil ulydighet
• Polish: obywatelskie nieposłuszeństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: desobediência civil f
• Russian: гражда́нское неповинове́ние n (graždánskoje nepovinovénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: eas-umhlachd chatharra f
• Spanish: desobediencia civil f
• Swedish: civil olydnad (sv) c
• Thai: อารยะขัดขืน (aa-rá-yá-kàt-kʉ̌ʉn), การขัดขืนอย่างสงบ, การดื้อแพ่ง
• Ukrainian: громадя́нська непоко́ра f (hromadjánsʹka nepokóra)
• Welsh: anufudd-dod sifil m

See also

• treason

Further reading

• civil disobedience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia