They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist The history of Civil Disobedience is a long and international one. ACT UP practices a form that comes from a variety of progressive movements. Below are several pages describing some of the history, theory, and practice of civil disobedience. Civil Disobedience Training ACT UP, an activist group famous for its direct action against government inaction and drug company profiteering involving AIDS, is widely acknowledged as re-energizing civil disobedience tactics in America.