Essay On Civil Disobedience

As long as there has been laws and human beings, there has been unrest. Those who disagree with the people who claim power and their ideals of how citizens should act. Disagree on how the government decides on their life, their well-being, all the while preaching their precious “Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness” to any with ears and while hearing distance. How could people that were oppressed get the rights their very government promised, bragged about, without the use of violence, without going down to their oppressors level. Coined by Henry Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, as a definition is “is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government”, and one of the most key sources for fighting for freedom, for liberty, and for the very right for people to simply exist safely. Without this symbolic protest, America would not be the country of ideals as everyone wants to believe. It would not be America at all. In order to change society when one is at the bottom of society is, at best, difficult, and at worst, near impossible. For a minority to fight for not just one individual's civic rights, but their children and their children’s children is dangerous and life threatening. Gandhi, of course, won his country's independence by using peaceful methods in order to escape Great Britain's grasp. The most

Even today, groups march, yell, scream, for their rights. In just 2017, one of the largest marches took place, a world wide Women’s March to place in order to protest for human rights and many other issues. This march has been estimated to have had 5 million participates, all marching and using Civil Disobedience to have their voices heard. In the past few years, protests, sit-ins, boycotts, all are commonplace in order to be seen, to fight a faceless force of injustice. LGBT, women, African Americans, Muslims, all have used nonviolence in order to be seen and listened