Civil Disobedience: Rosa Parks And The Civil Rights Movement

Civil disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. Civil disobedience is the best way to make a change, peacefully. For example, Rosa Parks. She was a black lady in the time period of segregation, she was disobedient, but made a change. Snowden is an ex-employee of the C.I.A, he was disobedient by leaking C.I.A information that was against the security rights of a U.S. citizen. Then there was Martin Luther King, he was an influential black man that made a massive change during the time of segregation. Overall civil disobedience can affect a society in unthinkable ways, and these examples show that. First, Rosa Parks's act of civil disobedience was very effective.

This was a form of nonviolent resistance. This involved massive but legal protest against how the Alabama public buses operated. He described nonviolent resistance as, “disobeying a law or lawful authority in protest against injustice.” MLK developed the doctrine of nonviolent resistance due to the people’s cry for justice. To go to violence as a last resort was way out of the question for MLK. He believed that if a person directed nonviolence resistance, it allows the person to positively promote a crisis and let people know about it without having to be arrested for not keeping a secret that authorities wanted to be kept. He believed that if a Negro could turn his cheek against acting out of violence to a racist or segregated situation than he holds a sword that is far more powerful and effective than violence could ever be. He stated that, “nonviolent resistance is the sword that heals.” This means it gets the job done by helping its people without a bad result or harming anyone or anything else. To still care for your surroundings and enemies while still protesting for your justice against the unjust system of segregation can turn those enemies into friends and you get the ultimate result in the