Civil Disobedience in a Democracy: Is it Morally Justified?

Been trying to consider this topic from both side and so I want to share some information I found this week. 
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​Below is a podcast called Philosophy Talk. I've listened to Philosophy Talk for ages, decades actually, and although my politics rarely line up with those of the hosts, I've gleaned so much from listening to their shows. This one is on civil disobedience and it is guaranteed to get you fired up with ideas and new ways to discuss the topic. This is a "must listen!"

Here is an excerpt from something I read this past week.  I have the whole paragraph here so it won't be taken out of context.  I added the underlining.

Revolution
Richard Stahler-Sholk, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/civil-disobedience
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The notion of a nonviolent revolution seems counterintuitive, since the scope of social and political change inherent in the concept of revolution is almost certain to be intensely resisted by entrenched interests. However, the logic of nonviolent action is not passivity, but rather active confrontation against unjust authority, using techniques such as mass noncooperation to expose the latent structural violence of a system and thereby delegitimize it. Such action may in fact provoke state violence, in which case the opposition may refuse to respond in kind, calculating that the resulting increase in delegitimation will lead to regime collapse. Maintaining a disciplined commitment to nonviolence in such circumstances may be difficult, particularly in the absence of a unifying moral framework of principled nonviolence (such as Gandhi's teachings in India). In fact, many nonviolent mass uprisings occur in a mixed context in which others have chosen to take up arms."

Here is one more of my discoveries this week. 

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
2001, Pages 11693-11696
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Political Protest and Civil Disobedience
D.Chong Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

"Political protest consists of a multitude of methods used by individuals and groups within a political system to express dissatisfaction with the status quo. Civil disobedience is a particular form of political protest that involves the deliberate violation of the law for social purposes. Within this broad conceptualization, civil disobedience can take numerous forms and be motivated by different reasons. Although Thoreau assumed that ‘civil’ protest would be conducted in an orderly and peaceful fashion, scholars disagree over whether civil disobedience is necessarily nonviolent by definition. In addition to disagreements over what kinds of actions qualify as civil disobedience, there is debate over when civil disobedience is justified. At a minimum, the civil disobedient must be able to demonstrate that the offending law or policy violates principles of welfare, equality, or justice. Civil disobedience rarely works through persuasion alone, but often depends also on pressure and coercion. In this respect, civil disobedience resembles a pragmatic tactic within a repertoire of strategies available to a protest group, rather than an option that is employed only when the conventional channels of participation have been exhausted."