Informative Essay: The Right To Peacefully Protest

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The right to peacefully protest is a right given to Americans, but when the opportunity is given to protest it impacts the society greatly. What affects the free society is the system puts boundaries on the rights that were given, meaning is the society really free? But what makes us free, is the act of peaceful resistance which brings the society together. In a free society, where the system fights physically and mentally towards us, using a non-violent act towards them triumphs over them.

April 16, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King writes from Birmingham Jail states "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.". From "The Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Dr.King expresses fighting for equality in one area it has to be fought in a other areas as well. In order to start a non-violent protest society as a whole would have to come together to impact the justified system we all live under. Dr.King was determined to build a campaign using non violence when during the time there was a great amount of brutality happening. As Dr. King states " Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly". A resistance can make a impact if communities are all one accord.

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In the beginning of the article speaks of violence and how violence has been used not only in throughout America's history but in the worlds history. Living in an society where there are laws to stop violence, it's to each its own. From the Civil Rights Movements when police officers were suppose to protects us they were African Americans worse fear. To present time where the authority is killing African Americans, rejecting their purpose and power of being in authority. Movements such as Black Lives Matter, to make known to the public peacefully that their lives do indeed

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