Electronic civil disobedience

Gandhi, world leader, prison inmate, pacifist, lawyer. This man started a non-violent movement in India, against that of British rule in the area. How did it work, though? How did one man, who could probably be picked up and carried by the average British soldier manage to diffuse the greatest Empire man had known at the time? This was because of two simple reasons: that to the end he chose to be peaceful, (which showed the wrongness of the British rule), and that he was influential, persuasive…

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…

Alex Beaufort Mosaics Seminar I Bailey April 9, 2015 Courageous individuals, such as leaders and activists, attempt to challenge the limitations of authority in a particular hierarchy or government in an effort to exploit their abusive power, and display it in a negative light. Not only do these individuals attract attention to themselves, but also to forms of injustice that may be worth bringing awareness to, and forces people to rethink established laws, and possibly consider new ideas. This…

Civil Disobedience Is it plausible for a society or civilization to be governed by rule of law but still allow some of its members to break the law? Though the question posed may seem a bit contradictory, John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin would answer the question in the affirmative; that it is plausible for a society or civilization to do so. Dworkin says rule of law is more complex and intelligent than the idea that all breaches of law must be punished. Though Rawls doesn’t explicitly make this…

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience I, myself, like many citizens have a cynical view of the government. I am skeptical of their morals and often question if their decisions are an act of self-interest. Additionally, the average citizen is often also dissatisfied by the response of the government. Nevertheless, citizens want the government to serve their needs by being active and responsive; however, how can it do that if it can’t accurately assess what the public wants. The government cannot serve…

In Lawrence and Lee's play, "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail," Ralph Waldo Emerson's maxim of "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," is evident within the text. The maxim itself means that we should place our own decisions above all else. From this meaning the theme of personal morality having importance in the individual can be applied to the maxim, and therefore the play's events. "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail," details Henry David Thoreau's experiences of following…

views are becoming less, and less relevant. In modern society, black people are represented in well and equally in society, let it be media, book, art, fashion, and so forth. You have pushed this nation so strongly that in only forty years after the Civil Rights movement, that this country had its first black president. When that day came for the first black man to step into office, people who were alive during segregation witnessed something they wouldn’t dream of seeing in their…

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from Birmingham Jail for many people to hear. Martin Luther King Jr. claimed that his non violent actions are as of those of an extremist in paragraphs 27 through 31. To deliver this message to his audience, Martin Luther King Jr. used different rhetorical strategies and examples of ethos, logos, pathos, and also Biblical allusions throughout those paragraphs. In the twenty-eighth paragraph, Dr.King said, “I am grateful to God that, through the influence…

By The Numbers by Jennifer Hackett is an article about Martin Luther King Jr.It Tells about how Martin Luther King helped shape the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and some facts and information about his time before and after he was assassinated. The information about Martin Luther King’s life before he was killed which is given by the article explains how life was for him.It tells how Mr.King lived during a time when almost every school and public areas were segregated.This article also…

intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Most onlookers and activists, during the Civil Rights Movement, would agree that violence was not a route that they wanted to take. Non-violence and self-defense both center on this concept of violence. To accurately identify if self-defense and non-violence are opposite tactics defining the two concepts independently in the contexts of the Civil Rights Movement is crucial. Understanding the thinking of the men that upheld these ideals are…