Civil disobedience is widely considered a popular way for the “average citizen” to easily and safely effect social change. Theoretically, it has very few real consequences, and is not hazardous to life or property, and works for the greater good, but in reality, the opposite is true. An essay originally published in Robert A. Goldwin, ed., On Civil Disobedience, stated that civil disobedience is “the resort—always a theoretically and practically weak resort—of the subject of law, exercised because the subject cannot or will not take up the rights and duties of the citizen.”
When executed properly, as with Gandhi’s movement in India or Martin Luther King, jr.’s march for civil rights, civil disobedience could effect change with minimal loss
When executed properly, as with Gandhi’s movement in India or Martin Luther King, jr.’s march for civil rights, civil disobedience could effect change with minimal loss