Why is the Great Salt March an example of both civil disobedience and passive resistance?
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Civil disobedience is when somebody refuses to obey the government, similar to boycotting, and is non-violent. An example of this could be when your teacher tells you that you must do a worksheet as your homework. If you do not do the (to prove a point), then this is what is known as civil disobedience. This is not as extreme a case as some of what Gandhi did, but it still civil disobedience.
Passive resistance is resistance without violence as well by acts such as fasting, refusing to cooperate, or peacefully demonstrating.
These two things are very similar in the sense that both are non-violent and go against the government, or a higher power of some sort. However, civil disobedience is only the refusal to do something to defy something or someone by peaceful protest, whereas passive resistance involves activities that show defiance or refusal against something. Fasting is passive resistance, not doing your homework is (a lesser example of) civil disobedience.