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A rebel is usually against something or somebody or some philosophy.  Many times rebels act on their disagrements thur writing, speaking, marching in the streets like the 'occupy wallstreet' is doing right now.  some rebel by going thur the court system.  Even tho courts usually deal more with somebody committing a crime.  The rebel may be against something that is legal according to the law, but view it as wrong from a moral perspective.  Some people are 'rebels without a cause'.  They are just mad about something, anything.  Same as 'rebels without a pause.'  They are gonna be mad at something a great deal of the time.  American slaves were rebels about being a slave.  American Indians were rebels about their land being taken.  Martin Luther King and Ghandi were rebels against social injustice. Pick your cause.