Civil Disobedience To Society

Protests occupy the cities as the free citizens of America raise a cry against an institution they deem unjust. But whether or not people are content with this year's election, everyone can agree that "it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish [the law]" if they have concluded that their will is no longer being executed by said law. A society cannot be free if it is not allowed to conduct peaceful resistance, and Oscar Wilde's argument that civil disobedience breeds progress is valid, along with Thoreau's stance that it is essential to society, as are the subsequent consequences. "It is through disobedience that progress has been made", and how free societies have been created and maintained (Oscar Wilde). Many of the sovereign nations that are instituted today originated from disobedience that developed into a revolution and a country. The United States was formed from the manifestation of feelings of unfair treatment by a tyrannical power which caused the creation of the great nation that is here today. And civil disobedience is so integral to society that the Founding Fathers incorporated it into the Constitution. Peaceful protest protects the people from being oppressed by the very powers they established. Peaceful protest is what led to women being able to vote and what led to the end of segregation. Civil disobedience is as …show more content…
It would be one thing if such protests resulted in vandalism, injury, death, etc. But since such results are non existent, how can civil disobedience be deemed negative? The only negative form civil disobedience can take is the radicals that evolve into a violent sect. But that in turn is no longer peaceful protest but a riot, which is an invalid counterclaim to the negative impact that civil disobedience can have on