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During the 20th century many changes to history occurred because of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is a peaceful public violation or stand against laws that a person, group, or mass of people can orchestrate. People that commit acts of civil disobedience believe that this is the correct way to produce change in something they believe, and the need to prioritize one's believe over the dictates of laws, but to do so in a peaceful manner rather than in violent and harsh manners. Because of these acts of civil disobedience people all over the world have started to take a stand against things that they believe are unjust. I believe that Mahatma Gandhi was one of the main reasons this wave and revolution of civil disobedience occurred.
Although the idea of civil disobedience had been around long before Gandhi made the idea of civil disobedience well known throughout Europe, Asia, and the United states. Henry David Thoreau pioneered this modern theory in an essay he wrote in......

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