Peaceful Civil Disobedience

Peaceful resistance to laws has a positive impact on society. When people find that laws are unjust to the point that people must do something the first option should always be peaceful. The people should have the right to protest peacefully. Throughout history, there are many instances where a peaceful civil disobedience and resistance have been more powerful than those born of violence. These include the civil rights movement, Gandhi’s salt march, and the start of our own revolution
During the civil rights movement, there were many of these such peaceful protests both large and small to protest the injustice of inequality of opportunity. Rosa Parks refusing to move to the back of the bus, the Montgomery bus boycotts, and the sit-ins at restaurants and diners that refused to service people of color. These events led to larger instances of peaceful civil disobedience. These assemblies were and still are protected by the people’s first amendment rights. This lead to the passing of the civil rights acts that ensured the equality of opportunity for all. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said in his book …show more content…
The founders before the revolution wrote to the English parliament repeatedly without resolve. This lead to the boycott of almost all English goons including paper, tea, sugar, glass, paint, and lead. All of these were important in the day-to-day life of a large portion of colonialists. It may be said that the peaceful disobedience expressed by the founders was not enough that they had to turn to violence to achieve their ends but as seen in the Declaration of Independence and other documents the founders did not want to fight. They did not even want to form their own country if it could be helped. However, it could not be helped, a revolution was needed but it was the last resort, as it should for all issues weather large or