Nonviolent resistance

Disobedience is something that is really common amongst youngsters. Every young kid goes through this stage whereas they become stubborn and usually disobey orders from the older people. As stated by Irish Oscar Wilde, he/she believes that disobedience promotes social progress. How do i believe this? Well, personally, disobedience leads to maturity and so on. At first people do not know what they are actually doing until they hit puberty; until they see the real image. In my personal aspect, i…

and taking action. A fairly popular response to this question is to act through the principle of love in nonviolent action. However, are there other ways to put love into action? When love and nonviolence is typically discussed the image of non-retaliation, self-restraint, and non-action typically comes into mind. We have seen this through history in the form of public disobedience and nonviolent protest. Leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. have demonstrated that love and nonviolence can be a…

What is freedom? Is it being mistreated or doubted for your lack of an education? Is it being kicked to the back of the line because of your skin color or is it being beaten for standing up to what you believe is right. In “The Speech at the March on Washington” by Josephine Baker and “From Letter to Viceroy, Lord Irwin” by Mahatma Gandhi, each article passionately argues about the equality and power of an education along with the mistreatment of those who stand up for what they believe is right…

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” However, even his peace movements that were heard throughout the world involved some form of violence. Many events preceding the American Revolution solidify the doubts about having violence in this world in order to create change. The Stamp Act riots, the battle of Lexington and Concord, and peace movements around the world promote the idea that…

"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…

The act of civil disobedience has been observed throughout history. More often than not, civil disobedience has been used for the betterment of societal values and, therefore, positively impacts a free society. Both great minds and great people alike have practiced civil disobedience in order to rectify laws or rules that they believed were unjust. Civil disobedience positively impacts a free society by allowing its citizens the freedom to oppose laws they deem unjust, by drawing attention to…

Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it shows many civilians that violence is not always the answer. There have been many cases where people have surrendered peacefully to police officers and are still murdered because how they are dressed, there race, or just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Whether the crime is violent or non-violent, no one should ever fear any authority of the law. "You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it's right…

Different people use different forms of protest, especially when it comes to major events, for an instance, war. Some may use pictures while others may use memes and/or quotes to protest. Writers often use writings and the usage of imagery, irony, and/or structure in their documents serve as the strongest elements in their way to protest. Writers use imagery such as the soldiers’ fighting condition and the aftermath of the war to describe how rough war is to protest. In Document B: “Dulce et…

Civil disobedience is the refusal to obey the governments demands in a nonviolent and collective means of forcing concessions from the government. Civil disobedience has been how people have been able to get their ideas across This belief originated from a long line of beliefs and ideas of peace. It is believed to have started around 470-399 B.C.E. One of the many political activist leaders who used this idea was Mahatma Gandhi. “Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869 to January 30, 1948) was the…

for in this world. There are many things to fight against. There are many ways to fight, Civil disobedience is one of the tactics used by many of those who fight. Civil disobedience is the "refusal to obey […] demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions […]" (Merriam-Webster) Civil disobedience is sometimes simply refusal, but can also be non-violent protests. Usually these tactics are used when fighting a government that is abusing it's…