Social Justice Essay Since the beginning of organized government, there has been oppression and war. In many places, governments oppress their people with unfair laws, strict taxes, and discriminate for racial or cultural differences.To begin with, Civil disobedience is defined as: “The refusal to comply with certain laws”(Oxford Dictionary). Although many people view breaking the law for any reason as wrong or unjust, there are many instances where civil disobedience is crucial. Citizens have a moral responsibility to exercise civil disobedience in the face of injustice because one has to protect the unalienable rights of their fellow man, and oppression and injustice without interference always results in violence and war. Most importantly,
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Mohandas K. Gandhi was a firm supporter of exercising peaceful civil disobedience in order to help a certain people gain back their rights. In one of his writings, titled “On Civil Disobedience”, Gandhi claims that: “Everywhere wars are fought and millions of people are killed. The consequence is not the progress of the nation but its decline” (Gandhi). The essence of Gandhi 's argument is that war and violence are a result of injustice, which eventually turns into something much more harmful and serious. For example, in Rwanda, more 800,000 people were killed, after being discriminated against for years (Genocide in Rwanda). The genocide in Rwanda could only be solved because other countries stepped in because they had the obligation to. To this day, the oppression and violence in Rwanda still continues, but it is much more dormant and peaceful thanks to the infiltration of other countries and militia that went against their own country in order to solve a conflict . In other words, the main cause of the genocide in Rwanda was built up anger, and racial discrimination to the point where nearly 75% of an entire ethnicity was brutally murdered. The way this crisis was eventually solved was by citizens and soldiers exercising civil disobedience in order to stop the killing and most importantly, to stop the injustice and the
Mohandas K. Gandhi was a firm supporter of exercising peaceful civil disobedience in order to help a certain people gain back their rights. In one of his writings, titled “On Civil Disobedience”, Gandhi claims that: “Everywhere wars are fought and millions of people are killed. The consequence is not the progress of the nation but its decline” (Gandhi). The essence of Gandhi 's argument is that war and violence are a result of injustice, which eventually turns into something much more harmful and serious. For example, in Rwanda, more 800,000 people were killed, after being discriminated against for years (Genocide in Rwanda). The genocide in Rwanda could only be solved because other countries stepped in because they had the obligation to. To this day, the oppression and violence in Rwanda still continues, but it is much more dormant and peaceful thanks to the infiltration of other countries and militia that went against their own country in order to solve a conflict . In other words, the main cause of the genocide in Rwanda was built up anger, and racial discrimination to the point where nearly 75% of an entire ethnicity was brutally murdered. The way this crisis was eventually solved was by citizens and soldiers exercising civil disobedience in order to stop the killing and most importantly, to stop the injustice and the