Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

Throughout history there have been numerous groups protesting against government laws. Take, for example, Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March, Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement, and the Women’s Rights Movement. What do all of these significant events have in common? They are all acts of nonviolent civil disobedience that have drastically altered society’s moral code. Each of the movements mentioned had a purpose of ensuring that the group they are representing has an equal opportunity and an equal access to their country's rights as others. However, still many people in a free society believe acts of civil disobedience are unjust and harmful to people within society; though, more often than not, these groups object to an injustice in hopes of correcting and feel their actions are essential to the development of society. Within a free society there is freedom to pursue your own goals as long as if it does not encroach onto another citizen’s goals. Nonviolent civil disobedience does not endanger the lives of
Minorities including African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and women would still be obeying the traditional laws. Having civil disobedience makes the governing body recognize the issue and force them to reconsider their laws/rules. It shows the passion and sheer persistence of how much a group of people cares about change for the current system. If Martin Luther King Jr. and his group of African Americans stopped persisting for equal rights, how would the U.S. government be pressured to construct additional amendments for African Americans? Petitions do not gain much public recognition whereas strikes, protests, civil disobedience, etc. are better vocal tools to gain publicity and more supporters. People need to disobey the laws in order for the government to take notice of the many dissatisfied individuals or