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    Civil Disobedience Thesis

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    Civil Disobedience In the 1960s‚ America was going through a new set of political and consciousness movements‚ where people rebelled‚ protested‚ and demanded what they though it was their right to have. However‚ some protestors‚ especially in the African American community‚ where seeking a new transformation and a change in consciousness‚ by fighting for segregation‚ unemployment‚ and poverty by using non-violent civil disobedience‚ while others supported self-defense and their right to bear arms

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    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 people‚

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    Civil disobedience will always positively impact a society that calls itself free‚ because a free society must allow for dissent. Peaceful resistance to law creates dialogue between people on both sides of the issue. Famous boxer Muhammad Ali peacefully protested the Vietnam war and the draft be simply refusing to go to war. He didn’t try leaving the country or going to college to avoid the draft. Instead‚ he made powerful statements explaining his thinking. He questioned the way things were‚ questioning

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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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    In "Civil Disobedience"‚ why does Thoreau refuse to pay his poll tax? In Thoreau’s essay "Resistance to Civil Government"‚ Henry David Thoreau outlines a utopian society in which each individual would be responsible for governing himself. His opposition to a centralized government is an effort to disassociate with the American government‚ which at the time was supporting slavery and unjustly invading Mexico. While the individual rule would work well for Thoreau who is a man of conscience‚ it does

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    Dannheisig 1 Jan-Hendrik Dannheisig Susanne Hamscha‚ M.A. Re(dis)covering America: Emerson‚ Thoreau‚ and American Democracy 10 April 2012 Transcendentalism in "Civil Disobedience" Thoreau’s Politics of Individuality and Nature Dannheisig 2 Contents Introduction 1. Transcendentalism a. Nature b. Introspective Conscience and Politics 2. Political Individualism a. Ethical and Political (In)justice b. Critique of Democracy Conclusion Bibliography 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Dannheisig 3 Introduction

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    Civil Disobedience Unjust

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    “If a plant cannot live according to its nature‚ it dies; and so a man.” As related by Henry David Thoreau‚ one of the most famous contributors to the concept of civil disobedience‚ there are some conditions regarding unjust laws that must be changed for the welfare of the people. If this is something the government cannot understand or agree with‚ it is the responsibility of the people themselves to work to the best of their abilities to change them. Most commonly‚ this is done through marches‚

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    sticks to burn and the increasing flames ignite the forest. Thoreau’s revolutionary ideas about Civil Disobedience had a similar effect throughout the following decades on the thoughts and minds of the oppressed. Civil disobedience has evolved from a sense of right and wrong and from the consciousness of doing something for the greater good. Thoreau did not invent the concept civil disobedience‚ for we can see myriad examples throughout history. Transcendent law appeared in the writing of Socrates

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    Throughout history‚ civil disobedience has been the mainstay of ordinary people protesting against the government and unethical laws. Civil disobedience is a peaceful form of protest‚ without any violence or breaking any government law. People like Gandhi‚ Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. showed the public eye that it was possible to get your point across without any acts of violence. Sit-downs‚ marches and hunger strikes were used as a peaceful‚ but powerful form of getting your point across

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    techniques work today? Are there leaders that invoke the same ideals? 2. For Gandhi‚ the concept of civil disobedience was extremely important. In what ways is it more powerful than guns? What are it’s drawbacks‚ that is‚ in what types of situations is it not appropriate? 3. Early on‚ Gandhi did support the British war effort. Is this inconsistent with the concept of nonviolent civil disobedience? Why or why not? 4. Gandhi said‚ “English factories make the clothes that make our poverty.”

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