The Importance Of Peaceful Resistance

When we first started as a nation our biggest concern was how to we do things for the people. How do we organize an entire nation and not have them fear one single person. A dictator. But along the way as a nation we failed to see that idea fall through. As a nation we allowed a infinite amount of people of color to fear the lighter tones that walked freely on the lands of southern America. No matter the amount of peaceful ways people had took action it seemed the only to gain attention was through the violence. Peaceful resistance is a start to a positive future not only for one race but the entire nation. Peaceful resistance goes as far back as Gandhi sitting on the lawn waiting for a change to come and what was he met with. Violence. As far as the nation history goes back the idea of peacefully advocating to get what you want has been a movement. With the likes of Rosa Parks a young African American women who sat on a bus and refused to give up her seat to a white man because she believed she was just as …show more content…
Another young African American male who believed that the rights of his colored folks were the same as those of his white counter parts. In the same breathe he was able to understand that no matter what had recurred changed should come. Change would come not only because he had a dream but because he had a peaceful dream that he believed would make the world a better place. At the same time we have the iddue with the Black Lives Matter movement in which thousands went out and peaceful protested in spite of the dangers that the nation proved to show. People of all shapes and ethnic backgrounds came out in support of the violent ways that young African american teens were being treated by the police system. In spite of all the pleas and cries to make a change and get things moving they still had no