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    When injustice occurs‚ change is demanded. Voices that speak out against an offence initiate change. This change begins with action. Acts of civil disobedience are necessary in any democratic society. The ideology began with Thomas Jefferson’s concept of rebellion. It was later demonstrated by the outcry that led to Brown v Board of Education and continued with Rosa Parks’ defiance on a bus. Through Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter from a Birmingham jail and present-day protests in airports nationwide

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    would someone take a stand. Freedom Riders involvement in civil disobedience was due to personal influences‚ the group chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest race segregation‚ and they also finally achieved success using their controversial method of standing up for what they strongly believe in. Civil disobedience is a form of protest where protestors break the laws to make a point (Suber). The purpose in having civil disobedience is to achieve change in government policies

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    Throughout history‚ civil disobedience has been the catalyst for change. Societies who have had oppressed people used civil disobedience to bring attention to the injustices they have suffered. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it is plays on the conscience of the oppressors and makes it easy for people to stand up for their own rights. Martin Luther King Jr. is a prime example as to why peaceful resistance to laws has a positive effect on a free society. King

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    taxes every April 15th‚ etc. To an extent conformity is good‚ only when people still have options‚ but when you take away a person’s options that is when conformity has gone too far. When drafting the Declaration of Independence‚ Thomas Jefferson’s main reason was to show that the newly constructed thirteen colonies were fed up with the tyrannical King George. Always having to pay such petty taxes on almost everything that the colonists owned. The Declaration was the first step in towards their own

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    effect might be to dissuade an isolated individual from civil disobedience on the basis of uncertainty. Cohen‚ a University of Michigan philosopher‚ posits that every citizen has a prima facie duty to obey the nation’s laws; in knowingly breaking a law the disobedient has engaged in serious action‚ which is however less than revolutionary since he accepts the basic legitimacy of the authorities. Reviewing utilitarian arguments for civil disobedience‚ Cohen’s gnawing doubts get the better of him: ""It

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    In Irish 1891‚ Oscar Wilde‚ stated‚ “Disobedience‚ in the eyes of anyone who has read history‚ is a man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made‚ through disobedience and through rebellion.” Wilde’s purpose of his claim is to remind mankind that disobedience is not always foul when fighting for a constitutional right and for the good of mankind. Imagine how unfair the world would be if we didn’t have the courage to stand up for the rights we believed in. Oscar Wilde’s

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    think civil disobedience during the SELMA period and civil disobedience during current times are the same? Civil disobedience during the SELMA period was not good‚ people would be attacked and sometimes killed. Civil disobedience now isn’t as bad as the SELMA period‚ our present time civil disobedience is not as bad‚ now people just get arrested and charged with trespassing. Civil disobedience is the refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws or commands of the government. Civil disobedience is also

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    We the Students Without civil disobedience our country could not have evolved and changed as much as it has throughout the decades. Civil Disobedience is the act of protesting and defying the law or government peacefully while accepting the consequences of such actions. Civil Disobedience has gotten numerous marginalized groups of people the ability to have rights and abilities that before their act of defiance‚ they didn’t have before. Protests by women‚ African Americans‚ Latinos‚ and many others

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    to understand what people are protesting. Through blind following of partisan politics coupled with a lack of interest in education has created a divide in the nation that must be dealt with without moderation or patience such as alluded to in the Civil Rights Movement of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s era. We must continue to exercise our right of peaceful protest so as to make the general public and our representatives aware of the massive‚ and growing‚ discontent and distrust of the American government

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    Civil disobedience‚ the right of every citizen they say‚ but is peaceful resistance to laws really a way to go about in effecting a positive change? Civil disobedience is defined as refusing to follow laws which go against your personal beliefs and being willing to accept any consequence given for it. It is said by Thoreau that a person wouldn’t be considered a true citizen if they did not commit civil disobedience. With that being said‚ I must say that peaceful resistant to laws positively impacts

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