the act by a group of people of refusing to obey laws or pay taxes, as a peaceful way of expressing their disapproval of those laws or taxes and in order to persuade the government to change them

Gandhi and Martin Luther King both led campaigns of civil disobedience to try to persuade the authorities to change their policies. 甘地和马丁‧路德‧金都领导过非暴力抵抗运动，试图说服当局改变政策。