Recently a lot of controversial things are being done in D.C by our new president. Many of these new pieces of legislation are getting a lot of backlash. There have already been protests for women’s rights, refugees, and people of color. To think that there won’t be more in the future wouldn’t be an unusual thought. These protests are carried out in a peaceful manner in order to try to get their message across. Peaceful protests positively impact a free society because they show to our representatives what the people want and they also spread the message of all the wrong that our government is doing. Many of the people participating in these peaceful protests have already done as much as they could possibly do to try to get their representation. For example …show more content…
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, He talks about how change will be needed to get rid of, or make the laws just. He explains his four part system in any nonviolent campaign. The four steps are: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action. This shows how they took prior steps before they actually had to make a demonstration. King says, “The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation”. In his process they try to negotiate before any action, but if it does not work they then will have to use a demonstration to get more attention. King doesn’t just break the law for no reason he tries to get it changed before, but if it doesn’t work he’s forced to use a demonstration because it’s the only thing that will be noticed. The purpose of the demonstration is not to show the crowd as violet law breakers, but to display the issues that our government seems to be unaware of since no action is being taken to change