Essays on Civil Disobedience

What is civil disobedience? What is an example of civil disobedience? Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words...

December 1, 1955, a young semesters by the name of Rosa Parks got onto the bus after a long day of work at a local department store. She avoids the section that is labeled “Whites Only” and sits down in the middle section of the...

From Ancient Kingdoms to modern day governments, laws have been in place to maintain order in society. For as long as there have been rulers, there has been disunity between rulers and ruled. People have always found ways to criticize government decisions and demand action....

When people see a helpless person, you often try to defend them from the injustices and cruelties that they are facing. Civil disobedience is justified when you are defending the innocent and the oppressed people of this world who cannot assist themselves, it is the...

The case of Venezuela’s high corruption and instability rates continues to be extremely prevalent in the lives of its civilians today. Venezuela has been in an unprecedented economic and political crisis which has been marked by severe food and medicine shortages, soaring crime rates, and...

In Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King talks about what it takes for a law to be unjust and the steps that must be taken to ensure the utmost response. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is allowing his city clerk to...

Civil Disobedience is the dynamic refusal to comply with specific laws, requests and directions of a legislature, or of an involving power, without falling back on physical brutality. It is one of the essential strategies of peaceful obstruction (qtd. In Reference book Britannica). Civil Disobedience...

Democracy is one of the concepts in which it has a lot of thought, talk, and both positive and negative meanings. We live in an age, where fight, freedom, and equality are both glorified and misunderstood as well as democracy. Democracy aims the peaceful change...

Throughout time, the voices of the poor and the working class were left unanswered. The only way to reach the higher ups was to do either two things, rebel or strike. Even now, we have cases of that happening, such as the Transgender movement, as...

The society we live in is full of ideas that require a change, but initiating the transition is challenging. Many people fail to comprehend which method they can use to for changing society. In my opinion, the most effective way to apply is nonviolent civil...