disobedients

The American colonists who participated in the Boston Tea Party and other defiant actions were civil disobedients.

Manning stood to face her her crimes like a long line of revered civil disobedients before her.

That algorithm can be used by terrorists and pedophiles or it can be used by banks and civil disobedients.

This has not been a rule among civil disobedients, but a feature common to some.

Contrary to John Rawls philosophy of civil disobedience, in which disobedients have to accept the legal consequences of their actions, Snowden evaded authorities.

However, that is not the same as saying it is a requirement or a distinguishing factor that makes some civil disobedients better than others.

Civil disobedients like Gandhi and King spent a lot of time incarcerated.

So easy to use an ill-defined group of disobedients as the scapegoat.

This problem has plenty of historical counterexamples to distinguish disobedients from one another, and confuses submission to punishment as a requirement, instead of a feature.

It does not absolve disobedients of acting from defeatable reasons.

Moreover, even if they were the first civil disobedients, there is nothing about the status of first that indicates greater authority to defining or adequately justifying disobedient acts.

MLK and Gandhi drew on historical predecessors who, despite not being called civil disobedients, were very much that and are considered and referenced by philosophers and political theorists as such.