What do you believe is the most important element of civil disobedience? Write your response using your own words

The most important element of civil disobedience is the use of nonviolence to protest against an unjust law. For such acts to be considered civil, they cannot include violent struggle. Once violence is engaged, the acts grow closer to revolution or rebellion.

"Civil disobedience" will here refer to any act or process of public defiance of a law or policy enforced by established governmental authorities, insofar as the action is premeditated, understood by the actor (s) to be illegal or of contested legality, carried out and persisted in for limited public ends and by way of carefully chosen and limited means.