Why Is Civil Disobedience Important

In American you can protest, and organize a sit-in. You can kneel during the Pledge of Allegiance, and March on Washington. You as someone living in America can do all of these things and as long as you're peaceful and non-violent you will not be prosecuted because of a principle called civil disobedience. This simple but extremely impactful principle is something that the people of the United States value, and something we probably should value more. Civil disobedience is the reason that we are where we are as a society. This trait is one that I grew up admiring. It is something that I had always looked at as a corner stone of the U.S. and a value that from a very young age I adored about america as a whole. It doesn't really matter whether or not you agree with the "hot topic" of the time, but more so that we as a people recognize that in many other nations and places their citizens cannot express themselves quite like we can here. I think that for a society to be called "free" this …show more content…
What my generation fails to realize sometimes, is that the past was once the present and that the present will one day be the past. The marches that are going on now will in the future be in textbooks. The impact that we make now will affect future generations just like the impact of those before us has effected us. I believe that the true impact that civil disobedience can cause is becoming lost in the young people of