Civil Disobedience Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Both of these people have many things in common, but one in particular that made them so successful, peaceful resistance. Peaceful resistance is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political non-cooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, without using violence. These famous activists used peaceful resistance to fight injustice. Peaceful resistance positively impacts our society by forcing public awareness, creating change without violence, and helps fight for civil rights. Peaceful resistance creates public awareness by evoking media attention. Having the media coverage or lack thereof makes a protest real. Without media coverage it is like it never happened. For example, the Standing Rock Sioux demonstrations against the North Dakota Pipeline has had very little media coverage because reporters and journalists trying to cover these demonstrations are getting arrested by the government. With the lack of media coverage the public is either very little or not informed at all, as if the protests do not even exist. Most peaceful protests get media coverage and evoke emotions and support within the public, therefore forcing the public to deal …show more content…
The difference between peaceful resistance and violent protests is like comparing Martin Luther King Jr. to Malcolm X. Both of these civil rights leaders wanted change, but the difference is that one used violence and the other peacefully marched and wrote letters to reach the goals and enact change. In history we view and praise MLKJ because of his peaceful method of protest, and though I do not condemn Malcolm X for wanting change faster than it happening, his methods did not help the view of civil rights activists at the