1. Civil disobedience is the active, professed
refusal to obey certain laws, demands,
and commands of a government, or of an
occupying international power
2. This picture can
show the
violence the
police used
against black
people who
fought for black
power.
After that one of
the most
important people
in relation with
civil disobedience
expressed his
opinion in his
famous speech
called « I have a
dream… »
3. « First they ignore you
Then they ridicule you
Then they fight you
Then you win »
-Mahatma Gandhi
We choose this quote
because Gandhi is a
symbol of civil
disobedience without
violence and it shows
the power of civil
disobedience and that
we can win everythings
when we fight for this.
4. Rosa Parks, is a symbol of the fight against the segregation in USA. At the time
she couldn’t sit where she wants and especially near a white person. But she did it
because to her it doesn’t exist differences between white and black people.
5. Henry David Thoreau created
the expression « civil disobidence »
in his essay in 1849, because he
refused to pay a tax for finance the
war against Mexico.
6. In 1989, East Germans
used civil disobedience
to break the Berlin
Wall in order to unite a
divided Germany.
