“Civil disobedience” worked for Gandhi, and for Nelson Mandela.
Sure, you may very well go to jail, but that is the price of raising awareness of an existing or impending tyranny.
Perhaps only because Great Britain was, at the time, relatively civilized with due process and criminal trials. Gandhi spent his time in jail.
If one had tried the same thing with Stalin or Mao as one's persecutor, one could expect to disappear into the re-education camps never to be seen again.
Our Founders tried civil disobedience and then refused to pay for the destruction of untaxed tea. This was shortly followed by attempts to disarm them. "Civil disobedience" ended on April 19th, 1775, with many years of death and destruction to follow.
Complying with an illegal law would be the real “civil disobedience.” Conforming to the real law, i.e., the Constitution, on the other hand, would be “civil obedience.”
We need to be ready to frame the debate.