Peaceful Protest Effects

I personally believe that peaceful protest does no harm to those in a free society. The concept of a free society is the freedoms given to us in the united states constitution, which includes the right to a peaceful protest. The concept of a peaceful protest might scare some people by inducing a sense that what they are protest may change through said protest. The idea that change is a bad thing is ignorant and negatively affects us through seclusion and segregation. Families and friends are split between small issues brought about by the events of said protests rather than the issues brought by the protest. The examples of peaceful protest have been said through all of history from Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement to ideas brought …show more content…
The effects of such protests are quite negative on society, making us separate based on opinions and facts, changing how we see people, causing hate and disgust among ignorant people and allowing for the teachings of hate to be spread throughout the country. The influence of peaceful protests can be immense along destructive in their own wake, and there isn't really a middle ground as they are all started with the best interests in mind. The execution simply becomes escalated and the results become deadly. There isn't a way to predict what a peaceful protest will become, as there hasn't been too much sufficient evidence and past experiences that say peaceful protests have been successful without a little escalation, as presented with Rosa Parks who was savagely beaten for staying on the bus when she was told to move, along many present protests who don't get any attention unless they escalate into violent ones involving death and the police, bringing away from the messages meant to be spread and more to the deaths brought by the suddenly bad