From Thomas Jefferson To Rosa Parks To Martin Luther King Jr.

Does opposing a law one considers unjust and peacefully disobeying it while accepting the consequence work? Is it productive to uphold a free society? From Thomas Jefferson to Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King Jr. all committed acts of civil disobedience. They were all very different but they all had one thing in common. They wanted to positively impact society and they wanted a law to change because they believed that it was unconstitutional. I believe that civil disobedience keeps an unjust government in check. Civil disobedience is like a peaceful protest. Some people believe that it destroys a civil society and shows defiance for law and order. That is not the case. The United States government has to abide by the laws of the constitution. The

By peacefully protesting unconstitutional laws it positively impacts society because there is a chance that law could change. Thomas Jefferson said, "When a government no longer meets the needs of its people. It is the right of the people to alter and abolish it and to institute new government." When the government was no longer meeting the needs of the people by enforcing laws of segregation, Rosa Parks, best known for her role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience, opposed the law of giving her seat up to a white man on the bus. By refusing to give up her seat and by opposing a law she considered unjust no matter the consequence she helped end segregation in the south furthermore having a positive impact on society. Like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. helped to end segregation. He led the Montgomery bus boycott and he helped organize the march on Washington which demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. Using nonviolent civil disobedience Martin Luther King Jr. positively impacted society. African Americans now have equal