"Do not obey in advance." -- Timothy Snyder Democracies rarely collapse abruptly. They erode quietly when ordinary people decide that speaking up is too awkward or not worth the trouble. Silence passes for agreement, and small compromises harden into routine. Over time, the acceptable expands, the unthinkable becomes familiar, and a system built on shared responsibility weakens with a civic whimper. Civil disobedience is refusing to go along with that slow slide. The phrase's roots are as American as Henry David Thoreau. In 1849, he argued that citizens must not allow government to overrule their conscience. If the law is...
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