This desire held evident by a passionate African American man led to a historical change in the 1960’s. Martin Luther King’s motivation for involvement in the act of civil disobedience was provoked by personal influences, he wished to engage in civil disobedience to protest civil rights, and he did achieve remarkable success using this controversial method of standing up for the belief he held that all men are created equal. The act of civil disobedience is a formal manner of protest in which an individual, or group of people, do not obey the enforcement of a law; thus, they accept penalties that may be thrown upon them whilst disobeying the law (Suber). To say the least, the purpose of civilized disobedience is to nonviolently divide the
