One of its earliest massive implementations was brought about by Egyptians against the British occupation in the 1919 Revolution. Civil disobedience is one of the many ways people have rebelled against what they deem to be unfair laws. It has been used in many nonviolent resistance movements in India (Gandhi's campaigns for independence from the British Empire), in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and in East Germany to oust their communist governments, In South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement, in the Singing Revolution to bring independence to the Baltic countries from the Soviet Union, recently with the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia and the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, among other various movements worldwide.
What is it called when people in society rebel against laws they think are unfair? What is an example of major civil disobedience in South Africa? What was the the movement called that brought Baltic countries independence from the Soviet Union? In 2004 the Orange revolution occurred in what country? Where was the location of the 2003 Rose revolution? Which people brought forward one of the earliest examples of Civil Disobedience? Who was one of the earliest examples of Civil Disobedience against? Why do people chose civil disobedience to protest? What does civil disobedience protest against? What civil rights movement in the US was known for it's disobedience?