The Right To Civil Disobedience

What creates a nation? Its ability to create, to make its people happy, to make a prosperous nation. We have succumb to a path of elite rule and are slowly falling under the control of the government believing that they make the rules and we play the game. A popular quote that Henry Thoreau uses in Civil Disobedience is “That government is best which governs the least.” Our country is set in such a way that the people are given the ultimate power in making decisions. Currently this is not the consensus, many people believe we elect those figures to make decisions for us so we don’t have to but this is wrong, we elect those figures so that we can tell them what we want done and they will work towards getting these desires accomplished. Our right to peaceful civil disobedience allows us to express ourselves in ways that a one man constituent can’t. Allowing us to reach out and to solve the problems we all face in today’s society.
Our right to civil disobedience or in many cases peaceful resistance allows the people to promote a problem for the people to discuss and to solve. For example a long running issue that we can all agree is that the oceans are becoming trash bins for the plastic industry as well as the average consumer. Plastic man a well-known superhero on the beaches of California is a collective effort of …show more content…
Some opponents to the ideas regarding peaceful civil disobedience believe that it causes disorder within people’s daily lives and that peaceful protests will always end up turning into violent riots. I will not deny the fact that peaceful resistance may cause disorder in the lives of those who may not be involved, but this is our right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. Protests are played as a tool to spread the word of an injustice, and this is one of the first steps to protesting a problem, educating the