MAKING A STAND: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE * A £6m mansion owned by the film director Guy Ritchie was taken over in February by about 12 squatters who said they were setting up a temporary school in the Grade I-listed property in Fitzrovia, central London.
Others are talking about taking a more pro-active stand, possibly civil disobediences.
In a recent interview, he said he stood by his act of civil disobedience and commended New York officers for treating him with respect.
Another version of the legend has it that Adam, for his disobedience, was hurled from Heaven and, as penance, stood for a thousand years on one foot on top of Adam's Peak, a remarkable 7,360-foot 7,360-foothat rises in a precipitous rock pyramountain thatjungles and tea estates of centriseseylon.
In October 1940, Gandhi, abandoning his original stand, decided to launch a limited civil disobedience campaign in which leading advocates of Indian independence were selected to participate one by one.
I hope she gets that strong look around her mouth quite often, whenever something doesn't seem right or feel right, I hope she will stand solidly for things that matter to her, those acts of disobedience that lead to a better world or a more complete life.
After all, the alternative -- taking a stand, raising a ruckus, demanding change, refusing to cooperate, engaging in civil disobedience -- is a lot of work.
Public school parents have similarly taken a moral stand to preserve public education by mounting a historic campaign of civil disobedience in the form of the national Opt-Out movement.
Much how Ghandhi embraced non violent protest to stand up against colonial rule in India, Naidoo adheres to peaceful civil disobedience to challenge the all powerful fossil fuel lobby.
The room was stifling and the meeting tedious until a strikingly pretty dark-haired woman stood up and electrified the crowd with her call to civil disobedience.
