Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it encourages other people to express their thoughts, it helps people fight against injustice, and it also can lead to bad laws being changed.
First, peaceful resistance to laws encourages other people to express their thoughts. There were many examples where a few protesters grew into many, including a recent example in my country Guatemala. According to an article on CNN.com, a few people started the protest and then, “There were college students and teachers. There were also union workers and peasants. They came from across Guatemala..."even some people who couldn’t go stayed and protested near their homes in the streets (Romo, Aug. 2015). What started with a few …show more content…
However, the benefits are more important because peaceful resistance to laws can make unjust laws be changed. For example, according to We the Students Essay Contest Posted on December 1, 2015 by Newseum “Parks was arrested for her act of civil disobedience and convicted of violating the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the South until 1965. Her arrest and subsequent appeal helped spark a 381-day-long boycott of public buses led by Martin Luther King Jr. and a court case that took Alabama’s discriminatory laws all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Rosa’s Park peaceful resistance helped changed this bad racial law.
The benefits of civil disobedience are bigger because as By Henry David Thoreau says in Civil Disobedience “All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.” When people practice civil disobedience they are expressing their thoughts about an issue, problem, or conflict. For example there were peaceful protests against Donald Trump because of his history of discriminating comments and other rhetoric.
In conclusion, Peaceful Resistance to Laws impacts a free society because, it makes a call to the people to express what their concerns are, helps to fight against unfair laws, and causes other laws to be changed in a peaceful way of expression. This is an important part of our
First, peaceful resistance to laws encourages other people to express their thoughts. There were many examples where a few protesters grew into many, including a recent example in my country Guatemala. According to an article on CNN.com, a few people started the protest and then, “There were college students and teachers. There were also union workers and peasants. They came from across Guatemala..."even some people who couldn’t go stayed and protested near their homes in the streets (Romo, Aug. 2015). What started with a few …show more content…
However, the benefits are more important because peaceful resistance to laws can make unjust laws be changed. For example, according to We the Students Essay Contest Posted on December 1, 2015 by Newseum “Parks was arrested for her act of civil disobedience and convicted of violating the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the South until 1965. Her arrest and subsequent appeal helped spark a 381-day-long boycott of public buses led by Martin Luther King Jr. and a court case that took Alabama’s discriminatory laws all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Rosa’s Park peaceful resistance helped changed this bad racial law.
The benefits of civil disobedience are bigger because as By Henry David Thoreau says in Civil Disobedience “All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.” When people practice civil disobedience they are expressing their thoughts about an issue, problem, or conflict. For example there were peaceful protests against Donald Trump because of his history of discriminating comments and other rhetoric.
In conclusion, Peaceful Resistance to Laws impacts a free society because, it makes a call to the people to express what their concerns are, helps to fight against unfair laws, and causes other laws to be changed in a peaceful way of expression. This is an important part of our