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Originally Posted by osnova
Not exactly correct. The 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott started with an act of civil disobedience, an intentional violation of the then existing law. See the excerpt below:
"Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was sitting in the front-most row for black people. When a Caucasian man boarded the bus, the bus driver, James F. Blake, told everyone in her row to move back to create a new row for the whites. While all of the other colored people in her row complied, Rosa refused, and was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinance did not explicitly mandate segregation, but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats.
When found guilty on December 5,[5] Parks was fined $10 plus a court cost of $4, but she appealed. The boycott was triggered by her arrest. As a result, Rosa Parks is considered one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement."
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Fair enough, I did not know that.
Upon further reading though it appears her conviction was appealed. Whilst waiting for it to be heard the US Supreme court ruled bus segregation to be unconstitutional. As a consequence of that ruling, the driver had no lawful right to order her to move. Hence she did nothing illegal by disobeying the order.
A technicality really but isn't that what most of this thread has been about? Technicalities?
My point being that not
all revolutions
need begin with illegal acts. A prime example being this here. A revolution
could begin by people deciding not to buy or support DRM'd products. Of course it wont because that would mean going without the product and it is more important to most people to have the product that it is to actually live up to their stated aim and ideal.
Cheers,
PKFFW