Examples Of Non Peaceful Resistance

Lately there has been some form of a weekly and or almost daily protest in the news. Weather if it’s on television or we see it on social media or we hear it at school, resistance it seems to be happening more and more these days. Most of the resistance that I have seen, watched, or heard about lately has been centered around our new President, Donald Trump. Most of these protest or resistance to laws or resistance to change or even resistance to changing the laws, there have been no in-between on sides or passion. We have either seen peaceful resistance or an all outright very violent and destructive resistance. Both sides, peaceful & non-peaceful, do show and think that they both hold some form of power. That one is right and one is wrong,
that one will overcome the other.
Both are hoping for change, hoping that their voices either wrong or right will be heard in the end. The highly non-peaceful resistance includes constant non-cooperation, civil disobedience, breaking the law, and sometimes or most of the times ends in some form of violence, destruction, and even death. Shattering store front windows, flipping over cars, throwing stones at the other party, burning our flag, and sadly even killing police
officers. These forms of non-peaceful resistance in the end do so much more harm than good. While they do bring the attention that they were seeking non-peaceful resistance in my opinion has a hugely negative impact on our society.
Non-peaceful resistance certainly seems to get noticed more or the social media seems to broadcast or post it more. I believe that has a lot to do with it, if it was less sensationalized maybe so many unruly people would not be so quick to jump on board a non-peaceful resistant event. Peaceful resistance to our laws, nation, communities, or leaders can have a positive impact on a free society. I believe that peaceful resistance tries to do just that, bring peace to a situation or issue. Peaceful resistance is trying to start a peaceful dialog, open up the lines of communication, expressing ones concerns for certain situations without violence, unruliness, destruction and without chaos. You can peacefully have a plat form from which to share your views and feel like your voice is being heard, your onion does matter, and peacefully you can strive to instill change, to instill justice, to instill values and morals. There have been numerous highly outspoken civil rights leaders that have demonstrated time and time again monumental peaceful resistance all without themselves ever being violent. Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cesar Chavez just to
name a few. Their point, their thoughts, their rights, their demands, their dreams, their ambitions, their hopes, and their main stage platform was all heard peacefully. It was remembered peacefully, it was accomplished peacefully, and it was demonstrated peacefully. It can be done, it has to be done in order to succeed or to get anything accomplished. One can get their feelings, thoughts, and frustrations out and heard by others peacefully. Society needs to work together, we need to strive to all have a vision for how differences and resistance can be handled, so that people do not feel the need to use violence, but instead we can come together and be the future that we need to be. I strongly and wholeheartedly believe that any truly peaceful resistance at all can and will have a more positive impact on our ever evolving society.