What we are witnessing since the presidential election might very well emerge as a major civil disobedience movement not just against Ahmadinejad, but in fact for more civil liberties, economic opportunities, as well as human, civil and women's rights -- so far all within the constitutional boundaries of the Islamic republic.

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He led a secular nationalistic movement that sanctioned violence against civilians, military confrontation, civil disobedience and diplomacy.

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Rather than recognize that the Palestinian voters' decision to elect Hamas to lead them in January 2006 constituted a rejection of the notion of a two-state solution on the part of Palestinian society, the Bush administration judged the move as an act of civil disobedience reminiscent, in Rice's view, of the US civil rights movement.

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At the height of the suffragette movement in the early part of the 1900s, a campaign of civil disobedience began with women chaining themselves to railings, smashing windows and committing arson.

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