Resistance Movement
“Historically the most terrible things; war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience but from obedience” (Zinn). These words of American historian Howard Zinn reveal the supposition that all things are wrong, that the wrong people are in suffering and the wrong people are out of suffering, that the wrong people have freedom and the wrong people are out of freedom. Howard Zinn once said, “It’s the way we as a nation refuse to obey with certain laws which leads to the refusal to paying fines, and taxes, as a peaceful political protest would be.” (Zinn). The long history of man is one of pain and suffering. Let all people be fearless and enriched with bravery. However, let them be fulfilled to the right type of obedience. In 1847, Thoreau, an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian, published an essay titled “Resistance to civil Government”. Thoreau strongly believed the “government is the best which governs not all.” (Thoreau), after spending a night in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax used to finance a government that condoned the institution of slavery …show more content…
Civil disobedience has been achieved by some of the most noble acts including the Boston tea party and the civil rights movement. To go along with in 1955 when Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a city bus when told she had to. These are some of the most memorable acts in history and yet people chose to consider it as a dreadful concept. I do not chose to consider it in that way but as a resistance movement. A resistance movement for freedom. For us the people of this nation to come together and fight for the right type of freedom. I stand with civil disobedience only because we are a part of this world so we should fight to have a voice in it
“Historically the most terrible things; war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience but from obedience” (Zinn). These words of American historian Howard Zinn reveal the supposition that all things are wrong, that the wrong people are in suffering and the wrong people are out of suffering, that the wrong people have freedom and the wrong people are out of freedom. Howard Zinn once said, “It’s the way we as a nation refuse to obey with certain laws which leads to the refusal to paying fines, and taxes, as a peaceful political protest would be.” (Zinn). The long history of man is one of pain and suffering. Let all people be fearless and enriched with bravery. However, let them be fulfilled to the right type of obedience. In 1847, Thoreau, an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian, published an essay titled “Resistance to civil Government”. Thoreau strongly believed the “government is the best which governs not all.” (Thoreau), after spending a night in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax used to finance a government that condoned the institution of slavery …show more content…
Civil disobedience has been achieved by some of the most noble acts including the Boston tea party and the civil rights movement. To go along with in 1955 when Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a city bus when told she had to. These are some of the most memorable acts in history and yet people chose to consider it as a dreadful concept. I do not chose to consider it in that way but as a resistance movement. A resistance movement for freedom. For us the people of this nation to come together and fight for the right type of freedom. I stand with civil disobedience only because we are a part of this world so we should fight to have a voice in it