Antigone by Sophocles and “Letter …show more content…
As stated in “What Civil Disobedience Is”, “Civil disobedience is an act of protest, deliberately unlawful, conscientiously and publicly performed” (Cohen 39). In most cases, civil disobedience is caused by an individual transgressing an unjust law in favor of a higher, unwritten law. Usually, civil disobedience occurs in a non-violent fashion as well. For instance, King proclaims that protest will be done “peacefully, openly, cheerfully, because our aim is to persuade” (qtd. in Cohen 40). A significant characteristic of civil disobedience is the fact that it is done peacefully, conscientiously, and publicly. There have been many examples of civil disobedience throughout world history. For example, “Honoring Martin Luther King Jr,” states that Gandhi defied British colonial laws, as the Salt March was aimed at the British salt tax and its control over colonial India (1). Gandhi’s act of civil disobedience in India was a major influence to King as