Civil Disobedience In Our Society
Society would not have ever evolved the way it has without brave acts of civil disobedience by selfless individuals we have had as members of American society. To think that women would not have the right to vote, African Americans would still be discriminated against, or homosexuals would not have the chance to be married is crazy. All these things were changed by complex acts of civil disobedience that carried our country to value equality and personal liberties. That is why I think that peaceful resistance to laws positively affects society and we would not have evolved or be nearly as open, accepting, and diverse as we stand today. The first social issues in the United States after its foundation were violent. Even though almost every single person
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The Civil Rights movement was organized by many people as a collective effort to dispose of the discrimination in the United States because it was everywhere even though we had been forced to fight a war that was supposed to get rid of it. Had our society not been graced with brave individuals such as Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we might still have colored schools and white schools, colored water fountains and white colored fountains, or colored lunch counters and white lunch counters. Peaceful protest saved our society in a sense because many people did not feel it was ethically wrong to have separation between white and colored folks. Also, years after this, we had the fight to legalize gay marriage. As a society we have finally realized what being equal really means because we are Americans and our country is supposed to be a world leader of freedom, equality, and liberty. We are a role model that everyone can look up to in peaceful protest because there have been so many issues we have fought through civil disobedience and protest that we have won for the best interests the a diverse nation we are in all
The Civil Rights movement was organized by many people as a collective effort to dispose of the discrimination in the United States because it was everywhere even though we had been forced to fight a war that was supposed to get rid of it. Had our society not been graced with brave individuals such as Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we might still have colored schools and white schools, colored water fountains and white colored fountains, or colored lunch counters and white lunch counters. Peaceful protest saved our society in a sense because many people did not feel it was ethically wrong to have separation between white and colored folks. Also, years after this, we had the fight to legalize gay marriage. As a society we have finally realized what being equal really means because we are Americans and our country is supposed to be a world leader of freedom, equality, and liberty. We are a role model that everyone can look up to in peaceful protest because there have been so many issues we have fought through civil disobedience and protest that we have won for the best interests the a diverse nation we are in all