Right to Rebel
Fear: a four lettered word which can carry so much weight if used properly. There is so much fear in the world, even in this century. From Pakistan to America, many people are facing fear in different stages and all for different ways. The only difference between countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to America is women and men in those type of countries have no actual voice. Americans are blessed to have been born or have been able to immigrate to a country that has a constitutional democracy. One that allows a person to dress and speak however they want without any judicial backlash because it is protected under the 1st amendment. One where there is no fear that someone might get acid thrown on their face for speaking their mind about education for young girls.
What happens if there is still fear? Even if technically the citizens are better off than most of the citizens of other countries? Many citizens of the United States recently have been participating in marches to show the fear that rolls around inside of them. Fears of their reproductive rights being taken away; fears of guns having more rights than they do with their bodies; fears of not being able to have affordable healthcare; fears of the government not focusing on the important issues; fears of equality being torn away from …show more content…
America was built on peaceful resistance and ever since it was created, peaceful resistance has been a major part of America. One of the major reasons why the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1964 was not due to Martin Luther King and his voice, but the millions of people who rallied beside him. Many other small movements of marches or rebellion that was done before or after the Civil Rights movement has shaped America to what it is today; it isn't perfect still, but it is getting there and
Fear: a four lettered word which can carry so much weight if used properly. There is so much fear in the world, even in this century. From Pakistan to America, many people are facing fear in different stages and all for different ways. The only difference between countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to America is women and men in those type of countries have no actual voice. Americans are blessed to have been born or have been able to immigrate to a country that has a constitutional democracy. One that allows a person to dress and speak however they want without any judicial backlash because it is protected under the 1st amendment. One where there is no fear that someone might get acid thrown on their face for speaking their mind about education for young girls.
What happens if there is still fear? Even if technically the citizens are better off than most of the citizens of other countries? Many citizens of the United States recently have been participating in marches to show the fear that rolls around inside of them. Fears of their reproductive rights being taken away; fears of guns having more rights than they do with their bodies; fears of not being able to have affordable healthcare; fears of the government not focusing on the important issues; fears of equality being torn away from …show more content…
America was built on peaceful resistance and ever since it was created, peaceful resistance has been a major part of America. One of the major reasons why the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1964 was not due to Martin Luther King and his voice, but the millions of people who rallied beside him. Many other small movements of marches or rebellion that was done before or after the Civil Rights movement has shaped America to what it is today; it isn't perfect still, but it is getting there and