Non-violent civil disobedience is the passive refusal of a person, or group of people, to comply with a law, that they deemed unjust. The practices of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. have proven that non-violent civil disobedience is an effective way to promote and institute social and political change. Non-violent civil disobedience is a practice that can also be apply to severe social injustice or political oppression. Nelson Mandela along with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Egyptian protesters of Tahrir square have successfully utilized non-violent civil disobedience to oppose social and political injustice by generating sympathy and drawing attention to the
