Peaceful disobedience had been a key point within the civil rights era, famous examples include Rosa Parks not giving her spot to a white man on the bus, MLK standing up with his fellow supporters for protesting racial discrimination. Their actions gained a national spotlight through the eyes of the masses, especially when the harsh actions of our civil servants (the police) were highlighted through spraying citizens with fire-hoses, beating them with batons, kicking people, etcetera. This spotlight had led a revolution to the end of Jim Crow laws and discrimination all together through ratifying (previous) laws.
We as humans living in the 21st century see the laws which existed before the 1970’s discriminatory, but certain people didn’t have that mindset and seen laws as though they couldn’t have flaws within. That said - are we as humans living within 2017 going to view all laws which exist now as perfect? According to many, history repeats itself.
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We as a people within the United States have the opportunity to change and update certain laws or provisions in which we find unfit (if we do so). Freedom of speech is the soul foundation which structures the people the right to petition, question authority, and (yes of course) laws which politicians pass
If it wasn’t for our right to freedom of speech we as a citizenry wouldn’t be having this discussion of questioning authority. Which is my case for defending peaceful resistance. If it wasn’t for the movement of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, the Black Panther movement and many others; Jim Crow laws would still be in existence today. The integrity of a person to have the audacity to break an existing law for their own beliefs can have the possibility to spark a movement, one in which can change those specific laws people are