Where did the meme come from that civil disobedience requires you to sit in jail afterwards?

[msanthrope]

125. As someone who has been arrested for my civil disobedience, I don't hide behind

behind the words of MLK---I live them.

I was arrested for protesting the sale of chemical components to Saddam Hussein, who then gassed the Kurds in Iraq outside of the Iraqi Embassy in DC. I was also arrested outside the South African consulate. I cannot tell you the problems I incurred--from the actual detention, to bail, to court appearance, to later getting my records expunged, to still having to account for the arrests for my security clearance, to later having to account for my arrests when I went to law school, and later, on my admittance to the bar. At the time, I was nearly tossed from my college, and only the direct intervention of some of the Jesuits at the protests saved me from getting kicked out.

I was lucky---

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1987/1987_86_803

--the ordinance under which I was arrested was struck....but I willingly paid the price.