The Consequences Of Civil Disobedience

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“Civil disobedience is an act of opposing a law one considers unjust and peacefully disobeying it while accepting the consequences”, as quoted from the prompt. The real question being, does this negatively or positively impact a free society? It does have a positive affect because people from a free society are using their right to free speech, their getting attention from people in power, and it does not hurt the environment or bystanders not in the conflict; but actually looks to improve. There’s a hidden beauty to civil disobedience because seeing hundreds and hundreds of men and women of all ages all gathering together to fight for the same side just so they can see and change and in hopes of making the future better. An article from “The
I do believe strongly that civil disobedience is a positive in this country but, sometimes it can be interpreted or used in a way that is not so beneficial. So to cover the opposite, an article from “The Boston Globe”, “Kneeling for the anthem is fitting protest” by Yvonne Abraham states, “... until a Colin Kaepernick comes along. The 49ers player now takes a knee during the anthem to protest racial inequality, including the unjustified killings of black men by police officers in several cities … or raising fists or locking arms.”. Even though Kaepernick may have been trying to do a positive by making a statement that caught every bodies attention, this has also caused a negative effect. As an example from the Chicago Tribune, “Colin Kaepernick kneels during national anthem, meets Green Beret before 49ers-Chargers game” by Tribune news service, states “When Kaepernick left the field following pregame warmups, he was greeted with profanity and obscene gestures from Leo Uzcategui, a 20-year Navy veteran …"I was in the Navy and I saw men and women bleed and die for this flag," Uzcategui said. "If he wants to do something, go to some outreach program where he can do some

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