Examples Of Civil Disobedience
For the Love of Justice
The most effective way to ensure that a movement will remain peaceful is to be certain that the motivation of the movement is a love of justice as opposed to a hatred for the force being fought against. Tragic events like the Los Angeles riots of 1992 are a perfect example of people joining together out of hate for violence.
Typically, when discussing civil disobedience the heroic story of Martin Luther King Jr. fighting segregation in the South comes to mind. However, the best example of civil disobedience is Mahatma Ghandi peacefully protesting in India. From disagreement to triumph, Ghandi stuck to satyagraha, or devotion to truth. Ghandi protested many unjust laws and bad situations, but the first cause he protested was a series of laws discriminating against the natives in India. To protest these specific laws Ghandi refused to obey a law and was thrown into jail, supporting labor strikes, and organizing peaceful marches. Later, he protested British rule, Hindu-Muslim tension, and …show more content…
While any civil disobedience is going to meet resistance, when a cause remains people peacefully calling for change, that resistance is typically only a matter of difference of opinion. However, when people behave irresponsibly in the name of their cause, their point gets lost. For example, one of the latest protests movement in America is the Black Lives Matter Movement. Already, just because of the sensitive nature of their cause people are likely to be judgmental and difficult. The BLM Movement did not help their case at all when, as a result of them blocking streets to protest, ambulances had to be redirected to lower grade hospitals and use less efficient routes. Most likely, no one organizing the BLM protest was plotting to cause harm to anyone but, these are the things that can make or break civil disobedience. Once something bad happens it is very easy to cheapen a
The most effective way to ensure that a movement will remain peaceful is to be certain that the motivation of the movement is a love of justice as opposed to a hatred for the force being fought against. Tragic events like the Los Angeles riots of 1992 are a perfect example of people joining together out of hate for violence.
Typically, when discussing civil disobedience the heroic story of Martin Luther King Jr. fighting segregation in the South comes to mind. However, the best example of civil disobedience is Mahatma Ghandi peacefully protesting in India. From disagreement to triumph, Ghandi stuck to satyagraha, or devotion to truth. Ghandi protested many unjust laws and bad situations, but the first cause he protested was a series of laws discriminating against the natives in India. To protest these specific laws Ghandi refused to obey a law and was thrown into jail, supporting labor strikes, and organizing peaceful marches. Later, he protested British rule, Hindu-Muslim tension, and …show more content…
While any civil disobedience is going to meet resistance, when a cause remains people peacefully calling for change, that resistance is typically only a matter of difference of opinion. However, when people behave irresponsibly in the name of their cause, their point gets lost. For example, one of the latest protests movement in America is the Black Lives Matter Movement. Already, just because of the sensitive nature of their cause people are likely to be judgmental and difficult. The BLM Movement did not help their case at all when, as a result of them blocking streets to protest, ambulances had to be redirected to lower grade hospitals and use less efficient routes. Most likely, no one organizing the BLM protest was plotting to cause harm to anyone but, these are the things that can make or break civil disobedience. Once something bad happens it is very easy to cheapen a