Disobedience is a natural human reaction to oppression. Even in the earliest years, disobedience has impacted lives, and a natural response to perceived inequality. It challenges established norms and facilitates our evolving environment and society. And through disobedience, systems of inequality are defeated and vast societal progress is made, stressing its value as a vital human trait.
The biggest steps in social progress have been accomplished through disobedience. Whether it had been done through peaceful movements or violent uprisings, societal disobedience has made global change throughout the history of human society achievable. Considered to be as one of the most influential and impactful changes our society has ever seen, the American Revolution was produced through widespread disobedience and rejection of established set rules. In the more recent years, the Civil Rights and Women’s Suffrage movements of the 20th century are …show more content…
Civil disobedience is not only permissible, but necessary to bring unrealistic or unjust laws and shed light on them. Rosa Parks was an African American woman who refused to give up hear seat on a bus to a white individual. She was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law that required African Americans to give up their seats to white people when the bus was full. Her arrest ignited a boycott of the bus system. In the cases of civil disobedience, whether it be past or present, the perpetrator’s distress was so profound it motivated the people to go against the law, sacrifice their own comfort, their safety, to face an unknown danger, to risk imprisonment. A government is created to protect the natural rights of its individuals, and when the government does not fulfill that duty it is the people’s right and their job, to bring the unjust law to attention, and civil disobedience is the perfect way for people to showcase their belief in the rights of
The biggest steps in social progress have been accomplished through disobedience. Whether it had been done through peaceful movements or violent uprisings, societal disobedience has made global change throughout the history of human society achievable. Considered to be as one of the most influential and impactful changes our society has ever seen, the American Revolution was produced through widespread disobedience and rejection of established set rules. In the more recent years, the Civil Rights and Women’s Suffrage movements of the 20th century are …show more content…
Civil disobedience is not only permissible, but necessary to bring unrealistic or unjust laws and shed light on them. Rosa Parks was an African American woman who refused to give up hear seat on a bus to a white individual. She was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law that required African Americans to give up their seats to white people when the bus was full. Her arrest ignited a boycott of the bus system. In the cases of civil disobedience, whether it be past or present, the perpetrator’s distress was so profound it motivated the people to go against the law, sacrifice their own comfort, their safety, to face an unknown danger, to risk imprisonment. A government is created to protect the natural rights of its individuals, and when the government does not fulfill that duty it is the people’s right and their job, to bring the unjust law to attention, and civil disobedience is the perfect way for people to showcase their belief in the rights of