Civil disobedience, a rejuvenating cure

Looking back through history, one cannot help but recall names such as Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Muller, and many others, in relation to the issue of civil disobedience. The latter protested strongly against all forms of injustice to which their brothers and sisters were subjected.Faced with the malicious projects of politicians, it is appropriate to disobey, but by advocating non-violence. Disobedience remains civil, that is to say non-violent. As a civilized way of disobeying, civil disobedience appears necessary for the breathing of democracy. Far from weakening democracy, it protects and strengthens it. For Africa and Africans, it is lumen odos.

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Jean-Hervé Amoikon BRÉDOU é um grande seminarista da diocese de Grand-Bassam (Costa do Marfim). Depois dos seus estudos em filosofia, o Padre Jean-Hervé continuou a sua formação para o sacerdócio ministerial no Seminário Maior de S. Coração de Maria em Anyama. Vincent Davy KACOU é vice-reitor no Seminário Maior São Paulo de Abadjin-Kouté.