Peaceful resistance has the meaning in itself, peaceful! The point of peace is not to hurt everyone and to make sure everyone is calm. Everyone has opinions, which America has definitely learned in the past. Civil disobedience has been a common act of protest across America for a very long time. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts our free society because it creates a connection between Americans, prevents revolution, and reinforces the democratic system we have implemented today.
When Edward Snowden became a whistle-blower and educated America about their government eavesdropping on them that was considered a public service. Government can’t always do everything right because it’s the people who are elected that make the decisions. …show more content…
Rosa Parks said “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”(2) Rosa Parks changed how America saw African Americans and overall changed history. Some acts of peaceful disobedience are needed. “Her arrest and subsequent appeal helped spark a 381-day-long boycott of public buses led by Martin Luther King Jr. and a court case that took Alabama’s discriminatory laws all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.” Without her or her peaceful disobedience, this would not have sparked a change in America that is still talked about today in the BLM(3) movement. Rosa Parks’ acts of peaceful disobedience positively impacted America.
Peaceful disobedience has been known of since before the colonies were independent from Great Britain. Great Britain taxed the colonies without representation and our acts of peaceful disobedience during the Boston Tea Party “was one of the many acts of civil disobedience leading to the War for Independence, establishing the United States of America as a sovereign state.” (4) Without this, America would not be where it is today. If America got its start by peacefully disobeying Great Britain, the people of America should be able to express their own grievances to create a positive impact on our
When Edward Snowden became a whistle-blower and educated America about their government eavesdropping on them that was considered a public service. Government can’t always do everything right because it’s the people who are elected that make the decisions. …show more content…
Rosa Parks said “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”(2) Rosa Parks changed how America saw African Americans and overall changed history. Some acts of peaceful disobedience are needed. “Her arrest and subsequent appeal helped spark a 381-day-long boycott of public buses led by Martin Luther King Jr. and a court case that took Alabama’s discriminatory laws all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.” Without her or her peaceful disobedience, this would not have sparked a change in America that is still talked about today in the BLM(3) movement. Rosa Parks’ acts of peaceful disobedience positively impacted America.
Peaceful disobedience has been known of since before the colonies were independent from Great Britain. Great Britain taxed the colonies without representation and our acts of peaceful disobedience during the Boston Tea Party “was one of the many acts of civil disobedience leading to the War for Independence, establishing the United States of America as a sovereign state.” (4) Without this, America would not be where it is today. If America got its start by peacefully disobeying Great Britain, the people of America should be able to express their own grievances to create a positive impact on our