...America has been built on resistance, both peaceful and violent. Combinations of the two have been present whenever resistance is happening. Peaceful resistance is seen as the most honorable; it has been responsible for not only the civil rights of people of color but also the civil rights of the LGBTQ+ community. Peaceful resistance contributes both positively and negatively to a free society, as seen in The United States of America. Peaceful resistance has given to America the opportunity for everyone to vote, everyone to go to school, and everyone to be in a relationship. Peaceful resistance has to be done correctly, which Martin Luther King Jr. understood. “In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to...
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...Peaceful Resistance Throughout the history of America, there have been many peaceful and violent resistances to laws that people did not agree with. Events like the Woman’s Suffrage, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Boston Tea Party are some of the most popular protests in American history. Though not all always work, peaceful resistance to laws have a positive impact on the society and the people in it. In a society, the government’s goal is to protect and serve to people in that society. With that comes making laws to try and accomplish the protection and service of the people. But as it is in any society, there will be people that are going to disagree with some of those laws. For example, the Civil Rights Movement in 1954 was a peaceful protest that ended up being very positive for the community. “The outcome was a landmark for black equality that initiated Civil Rights Movement.” (Bill of Rights Institute) The Civil Rights Movement gave the entire black community equal rights, which had a positive impact on them and the rest of the community because it brought people closer to each other and there was much less segregation between people. There has to be a balance between the government’s contribution to laws and the society’s contribution to laws. “If...
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...Peaceful resistance in our country has always proved to be a way to communicate an idea effectively. When a group of individuals stand for something they strongly believe in, the results are more likely than not, positive. Without the people of the past and their acts against these laws, we would be living in a completely different world. When laws are set in place, they are made to fix a problem of the time period. Twenty years later that law may no longer apply. This statement alone shows just how important it is that individuals stand up for things they believe in. For example, Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus despite being asked repeatedly to move, made a statement about what she believed in. Parks never got violent, or hostile with anyone. The people of this time period were only disgusted by the fact that she was an African American woman sitting in the "white's only" section of the bus. African Americans saw Parks and they were inspired then to take a stand for themselves and the issues they were facing. Although Parks spent time in jail, and was harassed by local community members, her point was being made....
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...product of our society. Therefore, because of inherent flaws in society caused by humanity’s blindness, it is the duty of every citizen to try to change society. Peaceful resistance to laws does not only have a positive impact on society, but is essential to society as is creates the social tension needed to bring about awareness and change and ultimately creates a more compassionate culture. Peaceful resistance brings hidden social abuses...
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...America was founded on disobedience. What if the Revolutionary War had never happened because people didn't have the courage to disobey? Would there even be an America? If not for disobedience, would America still have slaves? If not for civil disobedience, would we still have segregation? As I ponder these questions, I come to the conclusion that resistance, particularly peaceful resistance, positively impacts a free society. Henry David Thoreau once stated, "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" When I think of peaceful resistance, I think of Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi....
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...Free societies are never easily obtained; they come from the persistence for justice that fuels revolutionaries. Dismantling the status quo is never completed without a substantial struggle and dedication to the cause. America won independence through war, along with countless other civilizations throughout time that yearned for a free society. Perhaps the most perplexing agent of change is peaceful resistance. In the past century, social justice warriors have embraced this method of protest as opposed to outright violence. The entire Civil Rights movement was ushered in with civil disobedience. Protesters actively defied laws and were consequently punished, and, in order to change a corrupt system, this peaceful resistance was continued. In...
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...Throughout the history of America we have resisted our government’s laws as a nation. Sometimes that resistance becomes violent, and sometimes it stays peaceful, but overall we try to get the point across to our government. I believe peaceful resistance to laws positively affects a free society, and we should cherish the right to resist unjust laws. Peaceful resistance to laws gets the point across, does not destroy property, and actually makes a change. Throughout American history we have resisted our government’s overreach into our freedom. If thousands of people show up to peacefully resist a law it means something to the politicians. Look, for example, at the Civil Rights Movement. During that movement there were thousands of people who...
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...Peaceful protest has been a method that has been practiced by many organizations and individuals that has proved the success of the method and has been advantageous to the improvement of society. A form of peaceful protest that has shown to be a success was the technique of peacefully resisting to laws that organizations or individuals saw as unfit. This technique has been used many times before and still today as it is seen as symbolic to many people. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impact a free society proven by the success of Martin Luther King Jr's principle of non violent protest like the Montgomery bus boycott and currently San Francisco's 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's peaceful protest against the unjustness of police...
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...Resistance towards a government can come in many diverse ways which could all impact key areas of the society whether it is locally, regionally, or even nationally. When it comes to positive or negative impacts of peaceful resistances toward the laws of a free society, I tend to lean towards more of the positive influences as I am a firm believer in non violent acts of disobedience and history can back me up on this. When we travel back to the civil rights movement era, there has definitely been many violent and non violent resistances displayed throughout the era but when you look at the results as a big picture I believe that peaceful protests were what made the civil rights movement a success. Before the civil rights movement protests seemed to come in...
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...who fought against the Jim Crow Laws weren't just fighting to be rebellious against the nation, but they were fighting to be free of an unjust unconstitutional law that was established and enforced by our Government. When I say they were "fighting" that law I do not mean they were actually throwing riots and chaos everywhere they went. They were more so doing peace rally's. They had peaceful sit-ins, they drove a bus around the country, they had conferences and speeches. They were not doing what today's rebellions are trying to justify as "peaceful". They still stood for the Red, White, and Blue. They obeyed civil laws, they did not kill, nor did they light towns on fire. The MLK group only wanted others to feel love for them, to accept them into society, and to be treated as real Americans with real...
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...Peaceful resistance to laws does have a positive impact on a free society. Peaceful resistance such as; protests, marching for a cause, and strikes are healthy to a society because they give a way for the citizens to voice their opinions to make sure their society is truly free. One of the best examples of peaceful disobedience is in the civil rights movements with Martin Luther King Jr. and his peaceful disobedience, another peaceful disobedience is with Rosa Parks in her fight for racial equality, and the marches and strikes from the Mexican American plantation workers. These examples had a positive impact on the society and helped make America as free as it is today, along with examples of peaceful protesting today for greater freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. is well known for his participation in the Civil Rights movement and has gone down in history as an example of how peaceful protesting can promote positive change. One of the ways that he did this was by writing letters from inside Birmingham jail. The letters that Martin...
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...On balance, peaceful resistance to laws deemed unjust are provocative in nature, however, civil disobedience becomes necessary when considering how American progress did not result from inaction, but rather peaceful opposition. In other words, to sit idle and to watch the practice of unjust laws is contradictory to American values of liberty and justice. The Founding Fathers purposefully instilled civil disobedience as a crucial element to the American identity in order to protect the individual’s political beliefs. By forming this nation under one of man’s greatest creation - the Constitution - our Founding Fathers acknowledged that peaceful resistance positively impacts free society by preserving democracy and civil rights. Peaceful measures...
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...In the latter half 19th century, the nations of Europe were looking for new places to spread their culture, new markets, and new areas for obtaining raw materials. A hundred years before, the British lost North America to the colonists and as time went by, the European countries were slowly pushed out of their colonies in the Americas, leading to this age of imperialism in which European nations would carve up Africa and Asia to spread their empires. The belief of the Europeans was that the more territory you controlled the more powerful you were as a country. There were several different reactions from the native peoples of Asia and Africa concerning this European rush for land. Some people reacted with the optimistic approach of cooperation...
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...lawlessness. Peaceful resistance to unjust laws is needed in order expose and call attention to laws that are unjust and therefore positively impacts society. The resistance must be peaceful or many may be unwilling...
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...TWO TYPES OF PROTESTS MY OPINION / BELIEF I strongly believe yes and no peaceful resistance to law is a positive and negative impact to a free society. Peaceful protests are the key to having your freedom of speech against federal law . History has proven what a peaceful protests can do and what a riot can cause. I strongly believe that whatever you stand for whether violent and nonviolent protesting; is a freedom you are given, although you need to know what you are actually standing for and not just another bandwagon effect. Peaceful protests can have a positive impact or a negative impact. I strongly believe peaceful resistance to law is a positive and negative impact to a free society. There is a difference between two types of...
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