Civil Disobedience Does peaceful resistance to laws positively or negatively impact a free society? Many people in today’s world question this; however, the United States wouldn’t be what it is now if people didn’t honorably protest. Respectable rallying has a positive effect on a free society because without it, there wouldn’t be anything free about society. It would be unheard of to even write an essay on such a controversial topic without someone first fighting for the right to speak one’s mind. Peaceful resistance has many accounts of having a positive effect on society. One example would be Rosa Parks. Sure, it’s probably a cliché to mention the popular people in history, but they’re famous for a reason. Rosa Parks was denied the right to sit wherever she wanted on a bus, a public transit for everyone, by an unjust law. So, what did she do? She refused to sit in the back of the bus. By doing so, she sparked the Civil Rights movement. Did this woman throw a huge riot, with violence and anger? No, she did not. Look at the world now, African Americans have the same rights as every other person in the United States. This was accomplished by peaceful protesting. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” He …show more content…
As society gets older and more mature, so do the views on it. The U.S. is one of the most diverse countries on the planet, and it didn’t get that way by people being out for one another. It got that way because people calmly brought issues and hard situations to light. It is well known that it is just easier to handle things in a kindly manner, as opposed to getting angry and fiery with rightful