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

[1StrongBlackMan]

133. From the folks that actually practiced ...

civil disobedience and paid a price ... From the folks that didn't practice civil disobedience because the feared paying the price; but in honest hindsight, realize that those the did and did pay the price were heroic figures.

Now the flipside to that question: where did the meme that one can practice civil disobedience without paying a price?

I would say from the same place, and a product of the mindset, that has it that, not only, every kid "makes" the team; but every kid plays the same amount of time and, at the end of the season, gets a trophy, regardless of ability or effort.

From the same place that has teachers pressured to give their students passing grades (to avoid law suits) regardless of the student's effort.

From the same place that has employees thinking that showing up to work, on time, every day should earn them a merit pay increase, if not a promotion, regardless of the quality of work they actually produce.

IOW ... we have developed a mindset where "just showing up" is enough and, more, should be rewarded.