Non Violence Dbq Essay

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ur world has many ways of solving problems. For example countries write up constitutions and declarations in order to become independent. We write treaties to keep peace and to make allies. Everything we do has a solution yet all of these things stated above take the lives of millions of people, through war. In this paper we will talk about the three virtues that promote non-violence and the three people who became successful using these tactics. Non-violent protests worked because these leaders and their inspired followers were willing to bring attention to their cause by breaking the law, maintaining disciplining the face of violence, and accepting jail time for their acts of civil disobedience.
Let us talk about the first reason,

breaking the law. Without breaking the law freedom fighter could not show their anger. If these civilians did not show anger the government would not realize the consequences if they did not switch the law. Ways of breaking the law in a non-violent manner would include sit in and boycotts. Three leaders showed this. Let us start with Gandhi. Gandhi broke the law by leading boycotts and marches. His most famous march was the salt march that went against the high taxes of salt given by the British
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This inspired citizens who also helped in the cause.
King broke the law in a very similar way. He participated in many sit ins and boycotts.
“If, by chance…we are guilty of violating the law, please be assured that we did it to bring the whole issue of racial injustice under scrutiny of the conscience of Atlanta” says king from his autobiography {document 2}. Lastly Mandela broke the law by leading non-violent protest which actually put him in jail. {Document 3}
The second reason non-violence impacted human rights was maintaining discipline. Maintaining discipline meant nonresistance and not fighting back. This truly made nonviolent protests non-violent. Gandhi maintained discipline during his salt march by showing nonresistance {document 4}. He would walk in ranks and be beaten down yet they never raised a hand in self-defense. King maintained discipline by not taking any weapons and protested without laying a finger on the enemy.
“We proved to them that we needed no weapons—not as much as a toothpick. We proved that we had the most formidable weapon of all—the conviction that were right” said king in his autobiography, {document 5}. Mandela maintained discipline in the face of violence when he would protest. {Document 6} when the authorities intimidated and attacked the volunteers they would not

retaliate.
Out final reason was accepting jail time. All three freedom fighter needed to accept jail time because it was the moral thing to do. This showed there followers that after breaking the law they must face the consequences for their crime. Gandhi faced months of jail time just because his followers were {document 7}. King and his followers were jailed 14 times {document 8} just for these non-violent protests. And Mandela was jailed for almost 27 years of his life just for protesting on the streets when he was in college {document 9}!
These freedom fighter inspired many of our other leaders that run our world today. Gandhi, king, and Mandela gave their whole lives to the cause they made the lives of millions of other people better the cost was their own Gandhi was assassinated by nathuram godse, and king was shot by James earl ray, and Mandela spent 27 years in prison. These men all used these strategies to make nonviolence work these leaders and their inspired followers were willing to bring attention to their cause by breaking the law, maintaining disciplining the face of violence, and accepting jail time for their acts of civil disobedience.