Positive Effects Of Civil Disobedience

Looking at moral principles within the diversity of the mix of cultures in the United Sates, civil disobedience becomes an arguable topic. Anyone who is fighting for their cause through peaceful resistance is fighting for their moral beliefs within their own respect. In a free society, unless the peaceful resistance could lead to life threatining results, the negative effects in one expressing their freedoms are outweighed by the positive effects. Going back to the mid-twentieth century, the issue of Jim Crow Laws and exclusion of African-Americans from the very doctrine of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness that we base this country off of, we see one woman's struggle to do something as simple as sitting on a bus. Using the mindset
For example, there have been numerous protests in major cities all over the country such as Ferguson, Missouri and Washington, D.C., regarding police brutality and the targeting due to racial profiling of African-Americans. At the same time, there have been violent protests in which society was definitely negatively impacted. Local businesses were burned and looted, along with people being injured and at the end of the day that solved nothing. Once the line is crossed between peace and violence, the line is crossed between positive and negative. Furthermore, the justification of civil disobedience can always be supported when someone is fighting for civil rights and representation, but only if the effect of this fight will not harm others. The First Amendment of the United States allows the people the right to peaceably assemble. This amendment has often been controversial in history regarding what the people are assembling for. The First Amendment, although written over 200 years ago, still serves to be beneficial and applicable to today's society. People are always going to have something to argue about or disagree on, which is only human. The people of this country have been fighting for their rights since the Declaration of Independence, although that resulted in numerous bloody battles, any American can argue that it was justified for this country to be new and free. Our forefathers knew what they intended the amendments to represent for the time period of the late 18th century and that its representation would manifest and withstand for years to come after their deaths. With the history of this country and the ever-changing laws and civil outlooks, there cannot be negative impacts to society if one's civil disobedience is supported by a virtuous and