Throughout the course of history, numerous citizens have practiced peaceful resistance, also referred to as civil disobedience. Interestingly enough, the terms used to label the action of defying one’s government in a nonviolent way contradict themselves completely. The word civil typically refers to the commonwealth of a nation or state while the word disobedience strikingly insinuates that laws will be broken. This incongruity parallels the concept that peaceful resistance produces both favorable and undesirable outcomes, but ultimately, as seen in free societies such as the United States, the positive products typically outweigh the negative.
Implemented in order to guide the general population in a direction that promoted the greater good, however, the government typically serves its country well; however, government officials are human as well, and not every judgement they …show more content…
stated that, “There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation.” With Birmingham having been one of the most segregated cities in the United States, it is extremely likely that the explanation for the bombing going unsolved stems from the fact that colored people simply did not receive the same access to protection under the law as Caucasians did. When the government fails to protect its entire body of people, it becomes necessary for another group to step in. The group that assumed the responsibility of making a chance consisted of civil rights activists who practiced civil disobedience, which, “Create[d] such a crisis and foster[ed] such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate [was] forced to confront the issue” (Letter from Birmingham Jail). After years of marches and sit-ins, they finally achieved their goal of achieving legal status for colored people, becoming a prime example of peaceful resistance culminating a positive
Implemented in order to guide the general population in a direction that promoted the greater good, however, the government typically serves its country well; however, government officials are human as well, and not every judgement they …show more content…
stated that, “There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation.” With Birmingham having been one of the most segregated cities in the United States, it is extremely likely that the explanation for the bombing going unsolved stems from the fact that colored people simply did not receive the same access to protection under the law as Caucasians did. When the government fails to protect its entire body of people, it becomes necessary for another group to step in. The group that assumed the responsibility of making a chance consisted of civil rights activists who practiced civil disobedience, which, “Create[d] such a crisis and foster[ed] such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate [was] forced to confront the issue” (Letter from Birmingham Jail). After years of marches and sit-ins, they finally achieved their goal of achieving legal status for colored people, becoming a prime example of peaceful resistance culminating a positive