Throughout history and in society today there were and are many people who demonstrate negative resistance and civil disobedience to laws. Negative resistance can cause some problems for society. On the other hand civil disobedience can do some good for society. Civil disobedience can help obtain and preserve a free society. There are many cases of civil disobedience in the past as well as today. Civil disobedience is the act of refusing some laws or governmental demands by the use of nonviolent
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Amidst the ubiquitous violence during World War II‚ nonviolent protest is often unheard of. However‚ there were several resistance campaigns that took place in Germany‚ led by its own civilians. One of such campaigns was the resistance group called‚ The White Rose. The White Rose was a non-violent‚ intellectual resistance group that consisted of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for graffiti and preparing and distributing anonymous anti-nazi
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Creating peace and love in a violent‚ prejudiced and coercive environment takes a courageous and loving mind in order to separate themselves from the hostility and exclusion that seems to be constantly present throughout the individual’s life. In the memoir I Shall Not Hate‚ author and doctor‚ Izzeldin Abuelaish expresses the difficulties and constant hardships of not only living‚ but being born and raised in the Gaza Strip‚ his ability to remain in his unburden mindset regardless of a severe catastrophe
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“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right” said Rosa Parks‚ the mother of the civil rights movement. Parks exemplified the role of civil disobedience along with many others to peacefully fight for what they thought was unjust. So the question is‚ does civil disobedience negatively or positively affect society? In my opinion‚ it has a positive impact. Civil disobedience was brought up through Gandhi‚ an indian civil rights protestor. Gandhi left a mark on the world that
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For the Love of Justice The most effective way to ensure that a movement will remain peaceful is to be certain that the motivation of the movement is a love of justice as opposed to a hatred for the force being fought against. Tragic events like the Los Angeles riots of 1992 are a perfect example of people joining together out of hate for violence. Typically‚ when discussing civil disobedience the heroic story of Martin Luther King Jr. fighting segregation in the South comes to mind. However‚ the
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Martin Luther King Jr’s approach to civil rights was nonviolent civil disobedience protests. This meant that when they marched on Birmingham they let the police beat‚ release dogs on them‚ spray them with fire hoses and didn’t fight back. They just kept peacefully assembling and marching for their rights. He knew that if the northern media would cover the abuses they faced that it would end segregation in the south. So the march on Birmingham happened‚ and in front of cameras the children and young
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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty‚ the ocean does not become dirty.” This quote was divulged from Mahatma Gandhi‚ perhaps one of the greatest and most infamous humanitarians the earth fostered. He believed in the independence and beauty of individualism; only protesting in the tell-tale‚ nonviolent manner Martin Luther King Jr. would later culture. Gandhi was one of the first anti-war activists publicized worldwide. His works heartened
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This speech was meant for primarily for African Americans and to all who supported the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr would stress the importance of non-violence throughout the movement and mentions it again in this speech staring that they have overcome violence. In this speech King also consistently praises American democracy stating that they can protest because of democracy that they couldn’t do this if they were in a communist nation or a nation run under a dictatorship. This was
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There is no better example of disobedience leading to progress than America itself. This country was built on revolution‚ from the worn eighteenth-century bricks pointing the way to Lexington and Concord to antiquated metal signs corroding in the landfill reading ‘Whites only’. To justify a safe and prosperous life‚ rebellions and protests must occur- until the minority becomes heard over the deafening shout of the majority‚ there cannot truly be peace. Oscar Wilde’s claim that ‘it is through disobedience
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Peaceful protests are paramount in affecting change in a free society for a simple reason; those with power tend to keep it. Only through demonstration (or regulation) will they relinquish it. While this concentration of power is completely unjust‚ I don’t blame the holders of it in the slightest. Although we humans are social creatures‚ we’re nearly always out to ultimately better ourselves and carry on in our blissful ignorance that we aren’t doing others any harm. This is where peaceful protests
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