Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is present all over the world in our lives today and is also present in Antigone by Sophocles. The play is a greek tragedy about Antigone, a young girl who disobeys a law made by her uncle, Creon, the king of Thebes. The towns people are told to leave her brother Polyneices’ corpse unburied, but she defies this law and decides to do what is right, which is giving her brother a proper burial. By doing this, Antigone is being civilly disobedient, which is the defiance of…

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…

Henry Thoreau believes that the government must be better, not just for the majority, but for all those that are part of it. He begins his civil disobedience essay by stating, “the government is at it’s best but expedient ,” this is implying that government fails to resolve the issues that the people quickly, making whatever provided “worse than the evil.” Thoreau believes that a government runned by the majority, does not necessarily make the decision fair and just, it simply means that it is…

Mohandas Gandhi was the first person to use the civil disobedience, against the british for salt. He protest against them without violent and gain independe. We encourage people to use nonviolent as a great weapon against injustice. Government are making law that is not right and people should stand against it because it is wrong, and people should demands for better law from government. Government are making illegal laws more illegal. They are making laws more illegal because they don’t want…

always say disobedience is a bad thing. These people obviously have not heard of Henry David Thoreau. Civil disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws. For example, when one does not agree with certain aspects of society, he or she should not have to support these aspects using their hard-earned tax dollars. This is a form of protest. However well-meaning the protests are, these people still face opposition for standing up for their rights. Another form of civil disobedience occurs…

transcendentalist and philosopher. Thoreau became known for the essay he wrote when he spent a night in jail due to his refusal to pay taxes in objection to slavery and the Mexican War. The essay was published and titled “Resistance of Civil Government” but also known as “Civil Disobedience.” It is unsurprising that the government is dirty and corrupt so the purpose of the essay was to influence readers to not fear but protest government laws and commands or vote them out. Thoreau’s opinion of…

In Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, a transcendentalist writer, he discusses how corrupt he feels the government is, and if they are doing these corrupt things then we the people should not continue to abide by their laws. He describes the government as never having proven to be useful or effective. He states, “...I think we should be men first, and subjects afterward." This emphasizes how he feels that the priority of the human race should always be put first over the state and the…

"On Civil Disobedience," was written by Mohandas Gandhi on July 27, 1916. In his essay, Gandhi speaks of two ways of countering injustice. One way of dealing with injustice is violence, he states that even though you may win, you have not countered injustice but rather made it stronger and brings more disaster. He uses an analogy to show how violent protest lead to wars and winning wars, with this action, only brings about the decline of the nation rather than its progression. He states that…

Letter From Birmingham Jail” King addresses the criticism received from clergymen,onlookers and supporters alike. In which he states “Freedom isn’t simply given by the oppressor, it must be demanded from the oppressed.” During the 1960s in America (Civil Rights Era), King shun brightly believing that America’s racist agenda could be dismantled through unity,non-violence, along with the effective use of our rights.In this letter, King respectively addresses his business in Birmingham Jail,…

evidence for this is written across history, from when Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle church to when Rosa Parks defiantly sat in the whites-only section of a public bus. Without these examples of peaceful civil disobedience, nothing would change for the better. In the early 16th century, Martin Luther, a devout German monk and professor of theology, visited Wittenberg on church business. It was there that…