Word: disobeying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...antiapartheid opposition while Mandela was in prison. "All violence is evil," he warned, "but a time may come when you have to decide between two evils--oppression or a violent overthrow of the oppressive regime." "When the honor of God is at stake," he said, "we will disobey iniquitous and unjust laws...
...barrage of anti-209 student protesters Carnesale suddenly faced at UCLA had little concern for his job safety or adherence to a popularly passed law. In their eyes, Carnesale was their servant, accountable above all else to undergraduate sentiment. If Carnesale would not disobey the law, protesters reasoned, perhaps he could be urged to issue public statements, as his predecessor had, criticizing 209 as harmful to the rich ethnic and racial diversity of UCLA. Despite a student takeover of the main administrative building and raging protests in campus quads, however, Carnesale refused to buckle...
Carnesale has done more than just stand up to the protesters, however; he has courageously one-upped them. Though he has refused to disobey the law, he remains committed to an ideal of racial, ethnic, and class diversity in the university. But he is working toward this ideal by chipping away at long-ignored systemic problems and shunning the quick fix of affirmative action...
...classically moralistic Star Trek storyline, the movie follows the crew of the Starship Enterprise as they stumble upon a sinister plot to uproot an peaceful agricultural race, the Ba'ku and steal their planet. Just as in the days of Captain Kirk, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) must disobey a direct order from a Starfleet admiral in order to do what he feels is right...
...Avoid threats as much as possible. They tend to weaken discipline...In a sense, a threat is a dare--it admits that the child may disobey. It should impress him more to be firmly told [what to do] if he knows from experience that his parents mean what they say." (From Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care...