On The Street Where I Lived Summary

As one of the witness saw all of the scenes of EDSA revolution once said, “More and more people, young and old, walking and in wheelchair, have now descended upon EDSA” ( “On the Street Where I Lived”). This is the impact of civil disobedience in the past that the Filipinos took as a role model to follow. The impact of civil disobedience can also be seen in several events and literary in the past and present. It is have been well known to apply in protest as bloodless and nonviolent. As the people want to change the law, they had use civil disobedience to show it. In Antigone, she willing to buried her brother to not against her moral. Or in EDSA revolution, these people here wanted to get their right and freedom from treating unfair of the

They doing this with a hope to change political, social, or economic. Civil disobedience can be show through marching, sitting in or sitting down, praying, etc. these are powerful protest without being violent or emerge big war. where are several famous examples of civil disobedience act in both history and literary. An example for nonviolent protest in history was the sit-in movement. By the time of 1960, African American still did not have equality with other American. They were being discriminated by other people that lived in America. On 1960, a group of African American decided to walked in a restaurant where only white people. They asked to be served, but the waiter refused to serve African American because they are colored people. They waited for all days, yet still they didn’t get served. The waiters kept telling them to leave without being served so they can do the business. The African American group refused to leave until the waiters served them. Finally, they did it, the waiters wanted to keep doing their business, therefore, they had to serve those

This suggest that, people don’t have to keep using violent or killing people to see it as protest and get their right. Only sitting down with a desire to change some unfair things, then they will achieve it. Another example of civil disobedience act can be seen in “Antigone” a literary. Antigone had do thing that is right for her her moral, even though it is against the law. She decided to bury her brother no matter what to get his soul to rest in peace. Although, it is thing that against the law that the king make. One time she said this, “I am not afraid of danger; if it means death, it will not be the worst deaths-death without honor” ( Sophocles 1224). This example points to that protest can be go against the law that not right. Antigone had used civil disobedience by going against the law and doing the right thing for her moral. She