How Did Muhammed Ali's Resistance To Laws Affect Society

Peaceful resistance to certain laws has a very important and an overall positive impact on our nation’s society. Without any resistance to laws that can be bent without causing any major harm at all, the people within a society would start to feel controlled by their government and would most likely begin to revolt, causing bigger problems than a few rebels that at the most, cause a bit of controversy. There have been many instances of these resistances all throughout our country’s history such as legendary boxer and activist Muhammed Ali evading the draft of American men to the army to fight in the Vietnam War in 1967 and Edward Joseph Snowden, a former American central intelligence agency employee and also a former contractor for the United States, leaking unbelievable secrets of

Not one person life was negatively affected by Muhammed Ali’s refusal to be drafted into the American army during the Vietnam war, in fact he went on to bring many people all around the world joy with his boxing skills, something that we probably would not have had to watch and enjoy had Ali joined the army and went to war in Vietnam and proudly represented the United States as a boxer instead of a soldier. The same goes for Edward Snowden’s information leaks against the American government. After the American people discovered some the secrets being kept from them by the N.S.A., many American government officials and politicians took action to change this, leading to millions of Americans feeling safer and gaining a better appreciation for their right to their own privacy. Overall, these small revolts against these laws cause no major harm and in most cases, they can lead to eventual positive changes within a certain society, which most of the time is the ultimate goal of the