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    “Civil disobedience‚ also known as passive or non-violent resistance‚ is defined as purposely disobeying the law based on moral or political principles.”- Janell Blanco. In a world full of unoriginality and and people only conforming to how everyone else thinks they are supposed to‚ disobedience is a valuable human trait because it helps you grow as a person‚ and it promotes finding your truth path in life. Growing as a person is not easily done. It takes a lot of time and work and figuring things

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    negatively impact our society? Well‚ I believe there has been a significant amount of negative damage caused from this practice. The idea of peacefully resisting rules we do not agree with sounds nice‚ until things get violent or taken advantage of. Resistance to follow the rules is not okay in many different situations. Young children must listen to their parents‚ employees must listen to their bosses‚ and the American people must listen to laws. We all have different types of guidelines and boundaries

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    This tradition brings to mind the long precedence of peaceful resistance in the US and Britain: the boycott of taxed imported goods such as tea and stamps by the colonists‚ the boycotts on cane sugar and various other goods in England during the 1830s as part of the protest of the slave-based economy lead by the prominent

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    Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it is exercising the rights of it’s citizens as well as proving that the government is not always correct‚ and the biggest changes normally come about from civil disobedience. Civil disobedience has been used to speak against the United States government when it showed that those in power wouldn’t change for the better. Civil disobedience was not well known for the abolition of slaves. David Thoreau called for it in “Civil Disobedience

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    its significance in the Indian Liberation movement Perhaps one of the most eminent figures in the history of India‚ Mohandas K. Gandhi‚ also known as the Mahatma‚ or "The Great Soul"‚ was the spiritual and practical founder of active non-violent resistance‚ a concept called Satyagraha. Also known as ¡°soul-force¡± or ¡°truth-force¡±‚ Gandhi developed this revolutionary technique as a method of gaining political and social reforms against the injustices experienced by Indians under British Colonial

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    Indians. This was a huge achievement because at the time racism was open and very commonly used. Gandhi never rioted‚ he only campaigned. In 1919 Gandhi became the “leader in the newly- formed Indian National Congress party”. Gandhi advocated passive resistance to British rules and submission to their aggression. He did not fight with the South Africans but did make it really clear that “he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law”‚ he also said that he was prepared to die but not

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    Mohandas Gandhi ’s‚ "Satyagraha‚" and Martin Luther King Jr. ’s‚ "Letter from Birmingham Jail‚" each argue for non-violent civil disobedience. However‚ each author uses different rhetorical appeals‚ such as ethos‚ to establish their credibility. In paragraph ten of King ’s statement he asks rhetorical questions the Clergymen might have. "You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins‚ marches and so forth? Isn ’t negotiation a better path"(King 2)? Gandhi also does a great job of breaking down

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    Not only do I support peaceful resistance to laws‚ but I believe that it is necessary for citizens of a free society to exercise their civil liberties in this way. Civil disobedience‚ only when it doesn’t incite violence‚ proves to be effective and empowering. A famous example of civil disobedience is Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March‚ which inspired the peaceful protests of the Civil Rights Movement of the late 20th century. When a government enacts a law that results in the oppression of groups of

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    Civil Disobedience Our nation’s laws have been formed based on civil disobedience. The idea of disobeying laws is what leads to progress being made in our country. When a community of people demonstrate peaceful disobedience‚ it makes the community aware that an unfair or unjust law may need attention. For example‚ women would have never earned the right to vote‚ and the 19th amendment would have never been passed if women had not peacefully protested. Women marched and would hold up signs in

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    Reading Response: Resisting Hitler 1. What types of connections did you make most often as you read: text to text‚ text to self‚ or text to world? How did making connections increase your understanding of the magazine article? The connection I made most of as I was reading Resisting Hitler by Susan Campbell is text to world. I think this is because in today’s society‚ there are many rebellions all over the world‚ making it easy for me to recall these kind of acts upon reading Resisting Hitler

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