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[https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/ig/features/0607_01/slide4.html by THE TEXAS POLITICS PROJECT] | [https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/ig/features/0607_01/slide4.html by THE TEXAS POLITICS PROJECT] | ||
Blockades, tree-sitting, boycotts, sit-ins, not paying your taxes, and deliberately disobeying a specific law perceived to be unjust--these are some of the many ways citizens use non-violent civil disobedience to promote political change. Very often these tactics are illegal, putting the individuals carrying out these actions at personal risk of arrest, fines, jail, and even civil damage awards. | Blockades, tree-sitting, boycotts, sit-ins, not paying your taxes, and deliberately disobeying a specific law perceived to be unjust--these are some of the many ways citizens use non-violent civil disobedience to promote political change. Very often these tactics are illegal, putting the individuals carrying out these actions at personal risk of arrest, fines, jail, and even civil damage awards. | ||
=====Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Six Principles of Nonviolence | |||
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[https://www.unodc.org/documents/e4j/Secondary/Terrorism_Violent_Extremism_Six_Principles_of_Non-Violence.pdf by UNODC] | |||
Principle one: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. It is active nonviolent resistance to | |||
evil. It is aggressive spiritually, mentally and emotionally. | |||
