Peaceful Protests: Defending Our Rights

Peaceful impacts are a good way to defend what we believe in. We use peaceful resistance to defend our rights given to us by the Constitution. We walk in peaceful marches like the March for Life and the Women's March to show our beliefs in our rights. So many people both in the present and past have used peaceful protest to display their beliefs.
For example, Rosa Sparks, a woman who stood for equal rights for all people, set an example by not moving to the back of the bus. She knew there would be a price to pay for not giving her seat away to a white person; however, she did not fight and she did not yell at anyone. She simply sat where she wanted because she wanted to show her strength and her belief that all people, no matter their race, ethnicity, or gender, should have the same rights. She showed protest and strength without having to get angry or fight someone. …show more content…
These like many other things in the future will need the acts of civil disobedience because it gives us a peaceful way to defend our rights; we don't need to fight or start wars to better our country. Like any women would say, we just need to talk it out. Anything can be solved by having a conversation with the person or the people that are doing something wrong.
While we do need and use civil disobedience, we cannot take advantage of this because taking advantage of this right could cause problems in our society. If we take advantage and make everything in our society a problem that needs to be confronted, no one will be listening to our protests anymore. We cannot be the boys who cried wolf when it comes to our problems because if we are and a problem rises, no one will listen and help us fix that problem. We need to use civil disobedience as it was intended to be used. We must peacefully protest for the equal rights that we have always been