The citizens of the United States of America are allowed to refuse and protest laws that they believe to be unfair and disagreeable. Only peaceful resistance can affect the free society positively, violent resistance affects the society in the opposite way. Every human being has rights such as freedom of expression in which they can speak their mind. Currently in the U.S., many citizens and Clinton supporters are protesting the result of the presidential election, some peacefully and some not, but these protests will not change the result of the next president of the United States. The protesters are just making themselves look bad and are violating the principle of accepting the result of an election. Citizen participation is a way to impact
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Other movements that took place in the U.S. were the African-American Civil Right Movement using nonviolent disobedience to create a law that outlawed discrimination against race, sex, and origin called Civil Rights Act of 1964. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. A person opposing the laws and publicly speaking about how unfair it is without causing any violence, is a person who is exercising his rights from the first amendment. According to an article “Civil Disobedience - The History of the Concept” by Net Industries, the origin of civil disobedience began approximately in 470 B.C.E. and was made well-known by Henry David Thoreau. Other political activists like Mahatma Gandhi were inspired by Thoreau. Gandhi was a leader in the Indian Nationalist Movement, he forbade violence and hate in his process of improving civil society. The Dandi March was a non-violent twenty four day march led by Gandhi for tax resistance on the taxation of salt. Peaceful resistance such as the Dandi March got attention without the use of violence, the tax was removed by the Government of India. Peaceful resistance had twice the impact than violent resistance during Gandhi’s time.
Other movements that took place in the U.S. were the African-American Civil Right Movement using nonviolent disobedience to create a law that outlawed discrimination against race, sex, and origin called Civil Rights Act of 1964. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. A person opposing the laws and publicly speaking about how unfair it is without causing any violence, is a person who is exercising his rights from the first amendment. According to an article “Civil Disobedience - The History of the Concept” by Net Industries, the origin of civil disobedience began approximately in 470 B.C.E. and was made well-known by Henry David Thoreau. Other political activists like Mahatma Gandhi were inspired by Thoreau. Gandhi was a leader in the Indian Nationalist Movement, he forbade violence and hate in his process of improving civil society. The Dandi March was a non-violent twenty four day march led by Gandhi for tax resistance on the taxation of salt. Peaceful resistance such as the Dandi March got attention without the use of violence, the tax was removed by the Government of India. Peaceful resistance had twice the impact than violent resistance during Gandhi’s time.