Nonviolent Resistance To Oppression Essay

There have been many forms of oppression throughout history. While many forms of oppression have been eradicated, many forms still exist in today’s society. Concerning the forms of oppression that have been eradicated, the question that comes to mind is how these forms of oppression were dealt with and what led to them being eradicated. The process of dealing with oppression in turn brings to light another question in how successful are the resistors’ approaches in dealing with oppression. There are two main distinct approaches to oppression which are violent and nonviolent resistances. Since there have been many oppressed groups that have seen success from nonviolent resistances to oppression, the focus of this paper will be taking a stance in arguing that the oppressed do see success in nonviolent approaches. In analyzing this notion, I will discuss the forms of oppression portrayed in the film Pride by Stephen Beresford and Angela Davis’s chapter “Class and Race in the Early Women’s Rights Campaign.” I will then discuss the resistors’ approaches in dealing with oppression and give my opinion of the most effective way to resist oppression which is a union of many forms of resistances coming together. Finally, I will discuss the power oppressed people have. I will demonstrate how they could use it through

While oppression is fought in the film by two different oppressed groups (LGBT community and coal miners) coming together, an idea of solidarity between different groups coming together in fighting oppression is seen opposed throughout Davis’s chapter. This is evident where the conditions that were being opposed in the Seneca Falls convention did not take into account the conditions of white working class women, and also the conditions of black women in the North and