Law-Breaking as Protest Essay

disobedience or not. Every philosopher states why the agree with it or why the don't. Agreeing with civil disobedience is ok when there are unjust laws that force people to break certain laws. However, if there are not unjust laws there should not be a reason why laws are being broke. Civil disobedience is also known as the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, characterized by the employment of such nonviolent…

impact on a free society, but these effects are not to be confused with the purity of the right to resist peacefully. It is understood that government will impose regulations in times of great civil unrest, but this should never happen to peaceful protest.…

the people. Although these two bold characters differ in their ways of gaining justice, both Antigone and Martin Luther King Jr. neglect laws that they believe to be unjust, regardless of the negative results that follow. The Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles is about a women named Antigone who repels…

civil disobedience has evolved to become an important form of protest. It is beyond the simple violation of the law--it is a demonstration of one’s principles that can positively impact the society. The main purpose of civil disobedience is to oppose unjust laws. But some people might question: how is it ever just to break a law? Especially in the United States, laws are voted on by representatives who act on behalf…

Peacefully resisting a national law impacts a free society, but depending on the situation, it can be a positive or a negative impact. In "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau, he expresses his belief that "government is best when governs least". That is a hard concept to follow, though, considering many citizens of the U.S struggle to conform to the laws we have currently. I would agree that a limited government is extremely necessary, but to have no rules at all is dangerous. If I were…

system of justice outside human law, since man’s natural rights, rather than law, ensure him his freedoms. Therefore, in a free society in which laws can be unjust, it is a natural consequence that its citizens should act in the role of, as Thoreau states in Civil Disobedience, “men first and subjects afterward,” meaning that they follow their conscience in judging what is just, and, if a law unjustly denies man what he deserves as a human being, then he must disobey that law. Despite this clear…

In the texts “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and “Letter to Viceroy: Lord Irwin” by Mahatma Gandhi, each passage argues that “It is justifiable to break an unjust law,” and “Protests using non-violence due to the mistreatment of the Indian people.” In order to achieve true freedom, one must use non-violent means to find a solution. First off, one must use non-violent means to find a peaceful solution in order to achieve true freedom. Based on “Letter from…

Austin Southers Professor Case Eng 124.06 5 October 2016 Segregation Law While in Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr writes a letter response to a public statement, wrote by white religious leaders in the south. In this letter that, Mr. King writes, he hits the topic of discrimination and segregation opposed on the African American community. Because of the leadership role that Martin Luther King was portraying, this led to him being arrested and brought to Birmingham Jail. This is where…

many peaceful protest and sit-ins. They were always broken up by police and not peaceful done. Most participants unable to get away when the police started breaking up the protest got arrested for expressing their freedom of speech. In the intro of the letter Dr. King begins to answer the clergymen of why he didn’t wait for the city administrators to act (King;par 1;pg79). The clergymen were hoping that Dr. King would wait for the city officials to make a change to the segregation laws down in…

impacts a free society positively because. Although breaking the law is never a good thing, it’s good that some people peacefully resist laws because it’s a good way to protest the something that is unconstitutional because if no one does anything about it then that certain law won’t be changed in order to make it constitutional. Like Rosa Parks said, “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right”. People say breaking the law is wrong, which it is. But when someone breaks…