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    In the past few hundreds of years‚ western countries like United States and British have boosted their productivity and military power since the industrial revolution. And their colonialism and oppression to those relative weak countries in the Southern Hemisphere do simulate a huge conflict for the problem of independence. And in past one hundred year conflict‚ a lot of historical figures‚ like Mohandas Gandhi‚ Che Guevara‚ and Osama bin Laden‚ have appeared in the Southern Hemisphere countries

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    Nonviolence was used when SNCC groups‚ first in North Carolina later in many other locations throughout the South‚ integrated business like cafes through the use of sit-ins. In some cases they would fill up counters that would only serve white and in shifts

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    In The Case Against Civil Disobedience the unknown author claims in his very first sentence that “the most striking characteristic of civil disobedience is its irrelevance to the problems of today” and that it is “the resort… exercised because the subject cannot or will not take up the rights and duties of the citizen.” What he fails to realize is that the rights and duties of a citizen is to keep an eye on the laws that rule the land and to revolt when those laws become unjust. It’s all part and

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    "Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart‚ and it must be an inseparable part of our being (Ghandi)." Non-violent protests have been a way of expressing the opinion of many different people for hundreds of years. Two of the individuals that made the idea of non-violent protest known to the world were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Aung San Suu Kyi. King displayed forms of non-violence during the Civil Rights movement in the mid 1900’s‚ while Aung San Suu

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    Pacifism is the belief that violence is not the way to resolve differences. They believe that war can be avoided and that there are better and longer lasting solutions to disputes. <br> <br>There are‚ however‚ various categories of ‘pacifist’. A ‘total pacifist’ is someone who completely avoids violence and believes it can never be justified‚ not even in self-defence or to protect others – this they see as the only morally correct view of war. A relative pacifist is someone who may use violence in

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    The next person to use Civil Disobedience is Mahatma Gandhi . Gandhi used Civil Disobedience in his Salt March. He was fighting against british salt acts. This form of civil disobedience was through a non-violent way. According to” Gandhian Nonviolence and the Salt March” by Thomas Weber‚ Gandhi and his thousands of followers would began to create salt and authorities would stop the process by kicking the salt into the mud. Gandhi campaign later spread across all of India with more than a million

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    In the event that individuals and gatherings are disregarded‚ that is as a rule a figured endeavor to make light of on gatherings statuses in social‚ monetary and political life. As down to earth encounters made us mindful‚ in social orders where contrasts between gatherings are sharp‚ the negligible refusal to recognize the presence of different groups appears to be inadequate. To this‚ the predominant gathering endeavors to dehumanize the fighting group. Furthermore‚ if this does not accomplish

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    their and future generations rights. Civil rights activist had a sole method throughout their fight against discrimination‚ and that is the use of nonviolence. Furthermore‚ in order for civil rights activist to achieve their goal‚ they used certain paths such as the purpose of nonviolencenonviolence strategies‚ and the “Six Principles of Nonviolence.” At first laws and constitutional rights were diminished by those superior to them. There were objections to them earning equal rights and that included

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    I believe that peaceful resistance to laws does impact a free society in positive ways. Nonviolent resistance‚ or peaceful resistance‚ is the practice of achieving goals such as a social change by symbolic protests‚ civil disobedience‚ economic non cooperation‚ political noncooperation‚ or other methods in the absence of violence. Through peaceful resistance you can do walks‚ marches‚ and protests but also remain peaceful and loyal to the country‚ state‚ or government. As Martin Luther King Jr. led

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    Being the man of the year means you have to do some pretty outstanding things. He put together peaceful movements marches on civil rights. Kings arrest led to the publication of his " Letter from Birmingham Jail". It was an eloquent treatise on nonviolence pressuring the federal government to sponsor an historic civil rights bill. These things and more lead to him

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