Why Is Civil Disobedience Effective

Mahatma Gandhi once said, ”Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.” Civil disobedience is the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting, picketing, and nonpayment of taxes. I believe that civil disobedience is an effective way to change unjust laws or make social change. I believe that it is effective because civil disobedience is a way to protest without breaking the law, it gets results, and civil disobedience can attract attention to the issue or problem.
I believe that civil disobedience is an effective way to change unjust laws or social change. My first reason why I think this is because it is a way to protest without breaking the law. In April of nineteen thirty, Mohandas
On February 14, 2018, Nikolas Cruz committed the mass murder of seventeen innocent students in Parkland, Florida. Because of this, students from all around the world have been protesting against gun violence.There have been many school walkouts with students breaking school rules - but not laws. Some people like George Clooney and Oprah Winfrey have supported the protest, and even donated five hundred thousand dollars each, for the student-led March for Our Lives on March twenty fourth (Kirk 2). Much attention and support has been brought to this topic lately. Companies like Viacom, MTV, and BET each paused their programming for seventeen minutes in honor of the seventeen students that were killed (Carbone 7). This is why I believe that civil disobedience is an effective way to change unjust laws,or make social