Justice or Injustice
“Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate.”, written by Henry David Thoreau.
I think that Henry David Thoreau explains the government by saying “It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.” We the people are those who keep those people in office, our hands hold them up and we chose if we want to let them go. “The standing army is only an arm of the standing government.”(Henry David Thoreau) There are two types of Civil disobedience there is peaceful protests and there is violent protest. Violent Protests …show more content…
Rosa parks in 1955 where African Americans weren’t able to sit in the front of busses and they boycotted the busses peacefully. Even today there is civil disobedience now, with the inauguration of President Trump. There has been marches for women, Immigrants, also for the LGBT community, and for the people’s voices to be heard because they felt like they were or have been ignored. According to www.cnn.com in Washington, Sydney, Berlin, London, Paris, Nairobi and Cape Town. All men and women working together to remind trump that woman are the same as man and can do whatever man can do. Also to show how it is not right to treat women with disrespect and how it’s not right of him touching women inappropriately like we are some object to him or how it’s not right of him talking about women like that when he has a wife and kids, which he has two daughters.
In conclusion Civil Disobedience is happening everywhere. But what will you chose nonviolence or violence? Those who used Peaceful protest had their voices heard and it might’ve taken a while for it, but a lot less people got hurt during the process. So I believe that peaceful resistance is
“Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate.”, written by Henry David Thoreau.
I think that Henry David Thoreau explains the government by saying “It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.” We the people are those who keep those people in office, our hands hold them up and we chose if we want to let them go. “The standing army is only an arm of the standing government.”(Henry David Thoreau) There are two types of Civil disobedience there is peaceful protests and there is violent protest. Violent Protests …show more content…
Rosa parks in 1955 where African Americans weren’t able to sit in the front of busses and they boycotted the busses peacefully. Even today there is civil disobedience now, with the inauguration of President Trump. There has been marches for women, Immigrants, also for the LGBT community, and for the people’s voices to be heard because they felt like they were or have been ignored. According to www.cnn.com in Washington, Sydney, Berlin, London, Paris, Nairobi and Cape Town. All men and women working together to remind trump that woman are the same as man and can do whatever man can do. Also to show how it is not right to treat women with disrespect and how it’s not right of him touching women inappropriately like we are some object to him or how it’s not right of him talking about women like that when he has a wife and kids, which he has two daughters.
In conclusion Civil Disobedience is happening everywhere. But what will you chose nonviolence or violence? Those who used Peaceful protest had their voices heard and it might’ve taken a while for it, but a lot less people got hurt during the process. So I believe that peaceful resistance is