1. Martin Luther King
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so," founding father Thomas Jefferson expressed. "Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessn...
Led by Martin Luther King, Jr, African-Americans who had been treated as second-class citizens for more than a century, used successfully the strategy of civil disobedience by promoting and ensuring the civil rights of millions. ...