Oscar Wilde wrote, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made through disobedience and through rebellion.” What Wilde wrote is true in my perspective, it promotes social progress. Without disobedience and rebellion how could we open our minds to other things? Disobedience and rebellion sometimes help us see the unordinary in society’s ways. When Rosa Parks was told to give up her bus seat to a white man, and she refused she was put in jail. After African Americans and some Anglo people heard what she had done, they took a stand. She played a great role in the Civil Rights Movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr. who all rebelled and “disobeyed”
