Does peaceful resistance to laws positively or negatively impact a free society? The positive affect in civil disobedience, the negative side to it, and what I think about civil disobedience will be explained. What is civil disobedience? According to Wikipedia, civil disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and several others performed a type of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience includes sit ins, marches, hunger strikes, and picketing.
Reasons why some civil disobedience impacts a free society in a positive way is there are many people who used some type of civil disobedience who helped make our society better somehow. Martin Luther King Jr. performed civil disobedience. He started marches, and wrote speeches. His most famous speech was “I Have A Dream Speech” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream ). Martin Luther …show more content…
For example with the Dakota Access Pipeline the people who were against the protests went and started a riot and they said the only reason they wet the people was because they started to burn the pathway and the nonviolent protesters only started the fires to keep warm (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/protesters-clash-police-dakota-access-pipeline-161121060641166.html). Civil disobedience can also cost you to get hurt or get arrested if the protest gets violent. Also it could get people to think that you do not like the free society you live in because you are protesting against something they came up with. An example would be the protests to stop the Vietnam War. People told the protesters to leave if they did not like the decision the US made to go to war with
Reasons why some civil disobedience impacts a free society in a positive way is there are many people who used some type of civil disobedience who helped make our society better somehow. Martin Luther King Jr. performed civil disobedience. He started marches, and wrote speeches. His most famous speech was “I Have A Dream Speech” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream ). Martin Luther …show more content…
For example with the Dakota Access Pipeline the people who were against the protests went and started a riot and they said the only reason they wet the people was because they started to burn the pathway and the nonviolent protesters only started the fires to keep warm (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/protesters-clash-police-dakota-access-pipeline-161121060641166.html). Civil disobedience can also cost you to get hurt or get arrested if the protest gets violent. Also it could get people to think that you do not like the free society you live in because you are protesting against something they came up with. An example would be the protests to stop the Vietnam War. People told the protesters to leave if they did not like the decision the US made to go to war with