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Monday, October 24, 2011
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Research Civil Disobedience and write a 500-700 word summary of the philosophy and descriptions of the notable practitioners who have used it to instigate social change.
Emma Goldman was one of the many notable practioners that instigate social change. But she did it in a different way her anarchist political philosophy kind of way. By writing and giving speeches this attracted many crowds. That wasn't the only way later she did instigated ways to social change mostly towards women's rights and social issues. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi did a lot to social change. His philosophy of nonviolent resistance to illegitimate authority. Also his mass civil disobedience campaigns that help form of popular political struggle. He went through a lot but at the end everything came out how he wanted it to go like. Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist. He's refusing to pay a poll tax lead him to jail. Which later all the experience got him to make his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Cesar Chavez the founder of the UFWU, he used non-violent sometimes illegal. To make attention towards their causes and create change in institutional policies. Martin Luther King Jr. was who led the nations peaceful civil right movement. Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Workers Movement and winner of the dispossessed. There was a majority of people that did change with their philosophy. And at the end most people were grateful for these people.
Civil disobedience most people don’t really know what it means or how you can use it. Civil disobedience yes you do have to break the law but you break the law in order to get what you want or to have justice where you think there needs to be. Civil disobedience means to perform illegal act publicity in contravention of laws of the government. Most people use civil disobedience in the wrong way they break the law because they want to. For example there are people who disobey the law for dumb and idiotic reasons like they smoke pot because they want to legalized marijuana. But then there is the people who disobey the law because they want to send a message to everyone to stand up for what they think is right and can make a change. For example one person who made a change in the world by disobeying the law was Gandhi. Although Gandhi was from a relatively wealthy family he decided he must help the poor. Gandhi also wanted India to be free from British rule. He and his followers held marches and processions, demanding fairness for all people, but, as in South Africa, at no time did Gandhi allow the use of violence. Gandhi believed in ahimsa, non-violence. Gandhi also believed that as a Hindu he should try to detach himself from the material things of the world. He gave up his wealth and often chooses to live among the poor instead. He dreamt of an India in which Hindus and other religious communities lived side by side without prejudice or discrimination. People would live a simple, spiritual life in villages rather than large towns or cities. Now another person who fought against the government was very important mane named Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights movement was about when black people weren't treated well by white people. They didn't go to the same schools; use the same bathrooms and much more. One other famous person that fought against the separation of white and black people was Rosa Parks. She was sitting on a bus one day. When a white person asked her to move, she refused to give up her seat. Back then, if you were black, you had to give up your seat to a white person. She was arrested because of what she did. Martin Luther King Jr. led a protest and black people didn't ride the buses for over a year. This is one of the peaceful things that he did to fight for civil rights. Although Dr. King was arrested several times, he was never violent. This angered some policemen because they wanted him to get violent, so they would have a reason to arrest him. His home was also bombed, but he didn't quit leading protests. His plan was to send a message and that was that everyone should be equal no matter the color of their skin. Dr. King used Gandhi’s way of protesting with no violence which made it surprising for cops and government, because they were waiting on riots and what not. This just proves that breaking the law isn’t always bad well only as long as your breaking the law for a very good reason like justice. Anyone now a days can be like Dr.King or Gandhi just as long as they know how to fight the government for what they want.
Civil Disobedience is a method of standing up for what you believe in, by illegally performing an act publicly in contravention of a government law. Civil Disobedience isn’t just breaking the law, but changing the law to improve society as a whole. Although many people throughout history have practiced Civil Disobedience, those who have made the greatest impact on society were Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. Henry David Thoreau, the author of “Resistance to Civil Government”, was one of the first to practice Civil Disobedience. Thoreau escaped to the wilderness for a year and when he came back to his home under the state, he was jailed for not paying his taxes. Thoreau strongly believed that he shouldn’t pay taxes if he hadn’t been living there, even though the property belonged to him. Thoreau didn’t really agree with the government, for he even declared “That government is best which governs least”. Even though many people didn’t agree with the government, they still supported it by paying there taxes. Thoreau on the other hand wouldn’t pay his taxes because he didn’t want to support the government. Here Thoreau demonstrates his resistance to the government, just like Gandhi would do later on. Mahatma Gandhi was the person who brought civil disobedience to its complete realization. Gandhi fought for Indian rights and for the eradication of the caste system. He went to India to gather support against the British and than broadened the scope of civil disobedience by preaching individual noncompliance and passive resistance, bringing several of his fellow Indians to protest against the British. Gandhi practiced nonviolent resistance by lying in the streets and refusing to move and his boycott on British goods and services finally ended the British rule. Another person who practiced Civil Disobedience very similarly like Gandhi was Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced by Gandhi's methods, Dr. King was the leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The very unjust laws against the African Americans led Dr.King to fight for their rights, again with nonviolence. One of the most memorable acts of the Civil Rights movement was when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. She was breaking the law when she did this, but once jailed, she planted the seed for several other African Americans to act out against the law. Dr.Kings “I Have A Dream” speech was the close to the movement where he declared his dreams for the nation and showed that this movement was successful . Civil Disobedience was used for in history’s most impacting movements by Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. Thoreau started the basic understanding of Civil Disobedience, which than led to Gandhi expanding it and Martin Luther King Jr. using it to change America’s future for the better. If they didn’t go against the law, who knows what would of been of this world. It takes true passion, guts, and heart to break the law for something you strongly believe in.
Civil disobedience is an illegal act performed publicly in contravention of a law or laws of the government for the short-term purpose of bringing about a change in the law or laws and for the long-term purpose of improving society as a whole. In other words it’s performing an act to persuade the government to make a change. It’s called “civil” because of the manner it’s performed in. It can be carried out by one person or a lot of people. There a few ways people can carry out civil disobedience such as fasts, burning of documents, strikes and so on. The idea of civil disobedience has evolved over time by taking ideas from different periods of time and different cultures. Some of the people that contributed to this are Socrates, St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Locke. There are some more people such as Thoreau, whose writing made this concept famous. Gandhi internationalized the practice. Martin Luther King Jr. also helped develop the practice of civil disobedience.
Thoreau was a famous writer who gave this practice the name “civil disobedience” and helps further its development by writing about it. He wrote the story “Civil Disobedience.” Thoreau had two main conceptions about civil disobedience. “The authority of the government depends on the consent of the governed. Justice is superior to the laws enacted by the government, and the individual has the right to judge whether a given law reflects or flouts justice.” He is saying that individuals have the right to say if something is just or not, not the law. Thoreau stayed a night in jail because he thought the laws upholding slavery and supporting the Mexican War were unjust. He would rather stay in jail than to be imprisoned by the laws of the government.
Gandhi started civil disobedience in South Africa in 1906, to defend the civil rights of Indian immigrants. His ideas for civil disobedience were influenced by Plato’s Apology of Socrates. At first he didn’t know what to call “civil disobedience.” Some called it “passive resistance.” Gandhi didn’t like it because the British Passive Resistance Movement did not forbid violence to achieve its goal. He later called it “satyagraha” which means firmness in adhering to truth. It had six elements that went into the practice of civil disobedience. First, its moral basis was grounded in truth, a basis much deeper than that provided by the theory of consent. To be binding, laws had to be truthful. All untruthful laws had to be resisted, though civilly—that is, by truthful means. Second, civil disobedience presupposed the obligation to obey the state: only those had the right to practice civil disobedience who knew "how to offer voluntary and deliberate obedience" to the laws of the state. Third, commitment to nonviolence was an essential component of civil disobedience. The commitment in question could be either moral or tactical, depending on the moral aptitude of the practitioner. Fourth, the practice of civil disobedience required a minimum degree of moral fitness, to be acquired by the exercise of such virtues as truthfulness, nonviolence, temperance, courage, fearlessness, and freedom from greed. Fifth, a practitioner of civil disobedience had to accept the punishment consequent to the disobedience voluntarily, and without complaint. Finally, engagement in civil disobedience had to be complemented by engagement in organized social work. Then he created Constructive Progamme to identify social evils against Indian immigrants.
Martin Luther King Jr. used civil disobedience throughout the civil rights movement. He was influenced by Gandhi and Christian humanism. Segregation laws were unjust and had to be disobeyed. Civil disobedience became widely used in protest in the late twentieth century.
Civil disobedience has been the cause of lots of change around the world. With the help of Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. it has developed into a strong tool. It is still used today and is very effective.
Civil Disobedience is the refusal of a certain law from people who want to change it or are opposed to it. What makes it civil is the use of non violence when opposing to the law. Some examples of civil disobedience: When Rosa Parks refeused to give up her seat. Other forms of the law inclued: Tresspassing, obstructing traffic abd refusing to pay taxes or being drafted into the military. Civil disobedience played a large role in history to get us where we are today, all the strikes and bycotts and everything. Rosa parkes showed civil disobedience when she refused to give up her seat to a white becuase back then it was illegal for the whites to sit in the front of the bus or for blacks to "disrespect" whites by not giving their seats up for them on the bus. Other famous historical figures that used civil disobedience to change the life of many people are Ghandi, Martin Luther King and Thoreau. Ghandi used civil disobedience in many ways to show people what was "right". He always remained non violent and always had a tranquil side to himself. Ghandi began Ghandian civil disobedience in 1906 in South America. He called his practice "Satyagraha" which means "firmness to the truth". Eventually using his form of civil disobedience he helped India gain independence. Ghandi led marches, and even fasted that drew the attention of many people which led them to become more aware of whin at was going on in the world. Along with Ghandi there was Thoreau. Thoreau was the one who oficially put civil disobedience into practice and "named" it. The original concept he called" Ressistance to governement" which later appeared as "Civil Disobedience" once he passed away in 1866. Then there was Martin Luther King. In the middle of the bus boycott that was started by Rosa Parks he realized that non violence was the best way to go and the best way to protest. Later in 1958 King formed a southern Christian Leadership confrence that was dedicated to justice for blacks but using non violence. Bloody Sunday was considered the crowning glory of King's non violent protest stuggle, Before his assasination his non violent and psychological philosophy were used in other minority groups. From King's use of civil disobedience it has started the SNCC (Student non violent coordination comitee) following the creation of this comitee there were three black students that participated in sit in, they were racially segrigated and discriminated against because of their race. This has inspired many college students to participate in different Sit ins. Overall, Civil disobedience is a form of fighting without violence. Many people do not think of how without using violence you can achieve what you want, or even just how one person can make a difference. Thoreau, Ghandi, and King have all made a big impact using civil disobedience in the world, Changing many different peoples life and also they have changed how it has formed along the way to become know as "Civil Disobedience" today.
The essay “civil disobedience” talks about how people should stand up to the government, the author Henry David Thoreau who was inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and his Transcendentalism movement. He was inspired to make this allegory when he was jailed for one night for not paying his taxes. He thought that this was outrageous that he would pay taxes for his home, but he did not live there for one year. Civil disobedience is when you break a law to protest the unjust law. People like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and Nelson Mandela used civil disobedience to change unjust laws in there respected countries. These men read civil disobedience and understand that if you want change in the government then you have to threaten the core of the country by not going to work or buying products from the government that is oppressing it. Mahatma Gandhi is one of the first people to use the theory of Civil Disobedience in action. But he did not use it in India first, he first practice it in South Africa during the Zulu War of 1906. Two British solders got killed by a Zulu because of a new tax the British had enforced. The British had declared war on the Zulu nation, and Gandhi asked that if Indian solders can be in the army. The British refused but they could volunteer to aid British soldiers. The Indian were leaded by Gandhi, and he urged the Indian population to help in the war efforts. He wrote in the Indian Opinion: “If the Government only realised what reserve force is being wasted, they would make use of it and give Indians the opportunity of a thorough training for actual warfare.” Gandhi tried to get India’s independence through various methods like noncooperation to British politics and mass revolt of British product. Gandhi tried to separate the social barrier from rich to poor, the poor people were called “untouchable” and they were mainly indentured laborers and farmers. In Champaran, a district in state of Bihar, thousands of landless serfs, indentured laborers, and poor farmers were forced to grow indigo and other cash crops instead of the food crops necessary for their survival. These goods were bought from them at a very low price. Suppressed by the ruthless militias of the landlords they were given measly compensation, leaving them mired in extreme poverty. The protests worked and the farmers could farm whatever they want. The salt march was also important because it was illegal for Indian to get salt form the ocean. Gandhi and thousands of Indians were taking salt in the ocean, the British responded by arresting 60,000 Indians. India got their independence in On 3 June 1947. Martin Luther king Jr was also inspired by the nonviolent civil disobedience movement. He used the non-violent protest that Gandhi used in India. Even though the idea was created decades ago it still was just as effective. In December 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference became involved in the Albany movement. According to the Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr “When King first visited on December 15, 1961, he had planned to stay a day or so and return home after giving counsel." But he got arrested and chooses to stay in jail until he was persuaded to pay the bail. Then he July 1962 he was jailed again and sentenced forty-five days in jail or a $178 fine, he chooses jail. Then three days in jail, Chief Pritchett discreetly get someone else to pay the fine. This was considered the first time someone got kicked out of jail! One of most famous protest in civil rights movement was the march to Washington D.C. This was one of main reason why the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) was passed. The essay “civil disobedience” had a major influence in the civil rights movement that was around the world. Even today people are using their rights to protest laws that are considered unjust in their eyes.
Civil Disobedience is basically an act of standing up for what you believe in and what is also right. There have been many times where people stand up for what they believe in and have been written in history. For example, we’ve read about Civil Disobedience by Thoreau. Thoreau decided to stop paying his taxes for about 6 years and was sent to jail. The only reason he was let out of jail was because his aunt paid his poll taxes. If it weren’t for Thoreau’s aunt, he would have been in jail a lot longer than one day and he would be happy to stay in jail due to not paying his taxes. Rosa Parks sat on the front of the bus and unwilling to give up her seat to a white man when told to move to the back of the bus. She refused because she was sitting in the first seat allowed for “colored” people and when the bus driver seen that one white man was left standing he asked Rosa to get up and she refused so he called the police. She even asked the police men why did they push them around and all he could say was, “I don’t know. But the law is the law…” Now because of her actions, she’s titled “Mother of Civil Rights” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for the rights of African Americans to have equal rights with the whites. He wanted to end the signs that separated the whites and the blacks from doing almost everything. There were signs as to where they couldn’t drink from the same water fountain, go to the same bathroom, and sit in certain places on the bus, which is what Rosa Parks rebelled against. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also was interested and helping Rosa Parks at this time. He even led a march to end this problem. We’re also having a civil disobedience act right now in the bay area. It’s happening downtown Oakland and also in San Francisco. These people are fighting because there have been many job threats and job losses. People are camping out on the street purposely to show that they are serious about what they want to end. Police men came in ruining what they try standing up for. They Mayor of Oakland were trying to end their beliefs. The police men threw a spray to break up the crowd because everything broke out into a riot. When I see “Civil Disobedience” I think of fighting for rights, but the law is against it. The law gets upset because people try to make a change in their community and other peoples’ lives and they don’t want to take the time out to make a change in the law because it may take time, or they’re completely against what people are fighting for. Otherwise, police men have to simply do their jobs. Maybe that’s why the police man said what he said to Rosa Parks about treating blacks the way they did. Many people try making changes in the world every day and although it takes time, most of the time it gets done. Are you willing to make a change in your society?
Civil disobedience can refuse to obey certain laws and commands of the government. The civil obedience fought against what they thought was unfair laws. Civil disobedience is an essay by an American named David Thoreau, published in 1849.The word "civil" means relating to citizens with one another or with the state. Civil disobedience was published under the title Resistance to civil government in an anthology called "Aesthetic papers”. The form for civil disobedience was "Civil Resistance”. Disobedience means "disobedience to the state”. Civil disobedience was a strong thing to the world back then and ended people to deaths and it changed the way people looked at things back then.
A person who has shown civil disobedience was Rosa Parks because she refused to give up her seat for a white person. Back then white people got to sit in the back of the bus and the black people had to sit in the front. Rosa Parks stood for what she believed in and tried her hardest to stand up to the white people but she lost. The white people hated black people and killed and injured them for everything just because they were black. Rosa didn’t feel that was right so she had to do what she felt was right. She was a very brave women and she took a while until they took her off the bus for not listening to what the white people said.
A man that showed civil disobedience was Martin Luther King he had a dream and then he was preaching to tons of people who also agreed what he was saying because he spoke for what he believed in. Unfortunalty he got shot for marching and saying stuff that the white people didn’t like. Martin Luther King was a brave man and didn’t care what people had to say about what he felt was right.
Another man who I think showed civil disobedience was ghandi because he showed people what was right.Ghandi was not a non violent man and was very calm about things but stood for what he thought was right. He died in 1948 because he was an Indian man.Ghandi had led marches and as he did that people were becoming aware of what the world has become and they agreed with him.
Martin Luther King, Rosa Park and ghandi are all examples of showing what civil disobedience is because in all of their story’s they stand up for what they believe in and what they think is right, all of them died but the thing was that they were not scared to stand up to people even though it was going to cause them death. These are three strong individuals and got to say most of what they wanted that’s more then anything back then but they persevered and got through it and also got to leave that horrible world and be free which is known as death.
Civil disobedience is a public, non-violent and diligent law undertaken with the goal of bringing a change to laws or government policies. The people who practice civil disobedience are willing to agree to the legal consequences of their actions, as this shows their devotion to the rule of law. Civil disobedience, is loyalty to a law, it falls between legal protest, conscientious refusal, and/or revolutionary action.
In “Civil disobedience” Ralph Waldo Emerson and his theory of transcendentalism influenced Henry David Thoreau, which was the idealistic philosophical and social movement that taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity. He criticized the government and their foolish policies because he didn't want to support salvery nor the Mexican war. He would rather spend a night in jail, then paying his taxes; thoreau felt freer than the people outside, stating that "I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. . . . I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was." His perspective of the way he was living never changed and he fought against the unjust government until he died.
Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian man who spent his life fighting for justice through "satyagraha", which means reaching truth. He led insurrections in civil disobedience, and controlled the Congress Party and fought to Unite India. He repressed many peaceful rebellions against the British such as, the "Dharasana Salt Raid". He originally was a lawyer in Britain then moved to South Africa to help the Indian community gain rights. "When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."He made a change in Africa and did it through civil disobedience, he was motivated to accomodate the laws even if it meant death!
Martin Luther King Jr, a Baptist Pastor, was an rights activist who believed that all men were created equal and should not be judged by the color of their skin. He was non violent in his approach. King organized the campaigns to address issues of economic justice; the march on Washington engaged into nonviolent civil disobedience. "A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan." Now Martin Luther King has a national holiday declared in his honor.
These notable practitioners used civil disobedience to instigate social change by notifying their government and society, showing how wholehearted they are to their opinions.
Civil disobedience is a method of protest that many leaders, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi have successfully used to achieve rights they deserve. In its most common form, it is nonviolent, and in the cases of Dr. King and Gandhi, it was used to help an outnumbered group achieve rights from oppressive leaders. Civil disobedience was put into the public eye by Henry David Thoreau, a writer during the Romanticism period.
Civil disobedience has its roots in very deep, reaching back to Native American and Ancient Greek cultures. In these cultures there were regulations in the city laws that it was OK to disagree and protest a law. Others, including St. Thomas Aquinas and John Locke practiced elements of primitive civil disobedience. However, the first to put it into motion was Henry David Thoreau.
Thoreau Henry David Thoreau, writer of the essay “Resistance to Civil Government” was the first to lay out the groundwork for civil disobedience. The essay is influenced by Thoreau’s one night in jail, a sentence given to him for not paying his taxes. His two main principles in the essay are that the authority of the government depends on how the people utilize it, and that an individual decides whether a law is justified. The first time that Thoreau lectured his ideas on civil disobedience was in Concord, Massachusetts, under the name, “On the Relation of the Individual to the State”. Thoreau fine-tuned his work and published it in 1849, under the name it is known as today.
Gandhi Gandhi didn’t read Thoreau’s work until 1907, after he started practicing civil disobedience. During 1906 in South Africa, he was trying to get rights for Indian immigrants in the country. By 1915, he had changed his focus to that of the Indian people, starting a peaceful revolution versus the British parliament. Gandhi saw six key elements in Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”. They were, as follows, a moral basis grounded in truth, voluntary and deliberate disobedience, commitment to nonviolence, being truthful, fearless, and greedless, accepting punishment, and organized protesting. Gandhi’s teachings left a great influence on a young man fighting for his rights, also.
King Jr. and Civil Rights Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the Civil Rights movement, had clear influence from civil disobedience and Gandhi. One of his most well-known acts was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was started by the Rosa Parks incident, in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. The boycott was a primary example of civil disobedience. King simply led his people to nonviolently boycott the Montgomery bus system every day until the unjust law was changed, which it eventually was. On March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday, 500 peaceful marchers were met by a “small army” of volunteers. Police attacked the group, and injured at least 80 of the marchers, severely wounding many. T.V. cameras caught the entire event on tape, and “Bloody Sunday” became public. King was able to lead his people past the event relatively nonviolently, which gained King respect in many circles.
Civil disobedience is an act of disobeying the law and/or commands of an authority figure to make a political statement. Civil disobedience is usually nonviolent although some may say that violent acts can sometimes be considered as a form of civil disobedience.
Thich Quang Duc was a passionate Mahayana Buhhdist monk that spent most of his life in service and teaching, heading monasteries and rebuilding temples. On June11th, 1963 the 76 year old month sat down in a full lotus position in the middle of Saigon’s intersection then he adjudicated the South Vietnamese government’s overwhelming policies and demanded for religious equality. Then, Thich Quang Duc’s fellow monks poured gasoline all over his body and he calmly set himself on fire. A lot of people may disagree about the purpose of Thich Quang Duc’s suicide; his job was an absolute turning point in the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam. Which conducted in which eventually lead to change.
Another man that showed Civil Disobedience was Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King disliked violence and led the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He organized a lot of nonviolent marches; sit ins, boycotts and blockades to protest segregation and racial injustice. Although his message was peaceful and his actions were considered to be unlawful both him and his followers we in jail multiple times due to their peaceful protests. His “I have a dream” speech had to do with peace and racial equality. His speech was one of the most powerful speeches in American history.
Another person that collaborated with Dr.King was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a Caucasian man on December 1,1955.She was tired and weak after a long day at work and just wanted to rest. However she wasn’t only physically tired. She was tired of the lack of rights that African Americans had. In book the book that she wrote she states “Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.” After being arrested, being tried, and a 381 day bus boycott the Supreme Court finally ruled that segregation is unconstitutional on public transportation. Through civil disobedience Rosa parks made tremendous gains in civil rights.
However Rosa Parks wasn’t the only one who gained from civil disobedience. A man by the name of Nelson Mandela joined the African National congress also known as the ANC in 1944.He was publicly against the national parties policies. When the ANC was banned because of his opinions they saw him as a threat. He was arrested and put into jail for five years. While he was in jail he meditated and tried to figure out how to make the social situation in Africa better. He created an ANC meeting where he was elected president and in the end he accomplished in saving the ANC and establishing African civil rights.
Last but not least Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi was born in Gujarat India. In Southern Africa he worked to improve the rights of immigrant Indians. While he was there he developed his following of resistance against injustice. Just like Dr. King he helped organize hundreds of nonviolent protests, such as heading a complete boycott on all British merchandise, and a huge march to the ocean to protest salt taxed. He was also put into prison many times because of his acts against the British. He like the others was also nonviolent. He used his widespread popularity to stop fighting by fasting until the violence stopped. He would sometimes also lead group fasts to protest violence. Gandhi was an amazing person and he was also a huge supporter of nonviolence.
Each and every one of these leaders has one thing in common. All of their civil disobedience worked and laws have changed and this proves that civil disobedience is usually the most effective way of changing unfair circumstances although it works best with nonviolence. If and illegal organization is violent then it will slowly collect supporters such as the KKK. Civil disobedience is the most effective ways to change the way people think and to change the way things are done. Standing up for what you believe in and being disobedient does not mean committing an unlawful act. It can help modify the law to help suit the community. People who use civil disobedience usually break a law because they consider the law unjust, and they want to call attention to its unfairness, hoping to change it, and exchange it for a reasonably more decent law.
Civil disobedience is an illegal act performed publicly in contravention of a law or laws of the government for the short-term purpose of bringing about a change in the law or laws and for the long-term purpose of improving society as a whole. Throughout the years people have had many protest some ending bad and some actually making a change. When one has a protest it never has to end with a fight or people getting arrested if it’s meant to be a peaceful one about something a group of people feel strongly there is no need for riots. Over the years important people like Gandhi, Thoreau, and Martin Luther King have done many of things that displayed civil disobedience. Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) fought for his people who suffered oppression from the British. Gandhi fasted and prayed to demonstrate the steadfastness of will. He led India to independence by showing the entire country that determination and faith can triumph over adversity. Gandhi fought for injustice of his people. He never had any protest where violence was the answer because that wasn’t what he was fighting for he didn’t want any of his people to suffer anymore. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) he didn’t like how the government was and how the laws were unjust. So Thoreau decided to pack up and go into nature and live off of nature for a while which was important to him as a writer he liked to write in romanticism times. When Thoreau returned from nature he was put in jail for not paying his property taxes. Since Thoreau felt so strongly about the governments unjust law he had to spend a night in jail which made him realize that the people outside of jail are the ones that are basically enslaved in the government’s law. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) Fought for the rights of African American people. The most known civil disobedience Dr. King did was the Montgomery Bus Boycott during the boycott no African American rode the bus because of how Rosa Parks was treated for not giving up her seat to a white man. Also in 1963, King led a massive march on Washington DC where he delivered his now famous, I Have A Dream speech. King's tactics of active nonviolence (sit-ins, protest marches) had put civil-rights squarely on the national agenda. Through the sit-ins, protest and marches Dr. King was not about violence just wanting to change the rights of African Americans These are three men that spoke up about the things the government did wrong that was unjust Gandhi for his peoples justice Thoreau for not wanting to be slave to the government and King for wanting all African Americans to be treated equal. If these men can stand up why can’t we fight for what we want in a nonviolence where we can get heard instead of the police and government thinking that were only there to start a riot. Hatred can be overcome only by love, Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it, I Have A Dream.
Civil disobedience to go against the law/government. Or against political beliefs of a person but using non violence methods to perused the people. The very most common one in the United States is when interfering with the government, being somewhere where the opposed is not allowed or by stopping traffic. Fighting for what you believe in with a help o people around you. One of the person who used these methods was Gandhi Thoreau when he wrote his essay on “civil disobedience”. Around the year 1845, it was a big change back then because people us to be afraid to speak up. And let their feelings against the government out. The reason that leads him to this was in that he us to live on a farm then when out and didn’t pay taxes for the property in a long time. So when he got back he got put in jail. And that is when he realizes that the government is way to corrupt and there needs to be some change! Way after him during the time of segregation Martin Luther king Jr. Uses the same method as Thoreau. Martin Luther King Jr. takes his ideas and converts him to his own perspective of that time.Beacuse in that time white and colored where separated of everything. From schools for kinds, water fountains, hoping centers everything! That wasn’t right so with him and the help of the community toke a lot of years but they accomplished what they wanted. One of his most famous speeches is “I have a dream”. He talks about how he has a dream that one day all his children/people will come together and put skin color aside, that’s an example of civil disobedience because he went against the government in a non violent methods to get what he wanted. Another very famous person that changed history was Rosa Parks. She as well worked with Dr. King during the time of the movement. But the method she used was that she was coming home from work then she had to give up her seat to a white. But she refused she was tired of the blacks always having to do everything for white people, they had to be even. After that she got put in jail. For a while but she never fought back with violence only with words against the government. After she got out boycott the busses for a long time with her community and they did it as well they defeated the cause. Without civil disobedience the world wouldn’t be how it is today. Everyone can speak freely for what they believe in, in a way where everyone cans Seattle with peace if they like. But without these people our society would be a mess. Not everyone is alike and that’s what bring us together we all contribute to ideas. Honestly I think civil disobedience is the most effective to who you were you want to get to, to make a change and that you’re willing to give time. Not someone ignorant that resorts to killings of innocent people.
Civil Disobedience is a way where a person or group has a say about what they think can make the society they live in a much more better and safer place to be, by doing an illegal act. They disobey the law, to make a political statement. Participants expect to be arrested, and are frequently charged with crimes such as trespass. More people commit violent civil disobedience be it take less effort, and patience, while non violence takes patience, because of a very stubborn government Three important people that used non-violent civil disobedience to stand up for what they believe is right are Rosa Parks, Henry David Thoreau, and Mohandas Gandhi. Rosa Parks On December 1, 1955 got arrested on a Montgomery Bus after she went home from her job as a seamstress, for not giving up her seat to a white male which just came in the bus. When Rosa came into the bus it was empty but then it got full soon. Rosa Park sparked a new era of American quest for freedom and equality. Through non-violence civil disobedience Rosa Parks got her voice to be heard by the nation that freedom and equality is a must, and the government is not right for thinking segregation is making the society much more better. Henry David Thoreau was the writer of “Resistance to Civil Government.” Thoreau got arrested for not paying his taxes. He was gone for about a year to live in nature, and escape the hard life of the urban society. Once he came back to his home, he got arrested, his refusal to pay for the government taxes, shows civil disobedience against the injustice of the government. Thoreau believes the only time the government cares for the people is when they collect the peoples money, other than that it seems like they are not doing there jobs of properly governing the people, they are not making the proper choices to make sure everyone’s rights are protected, and finally they are not making the society a much better place for everyone. Mohandas Gandhi led India to independence and also inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He organized peasants, farmers, and urban laborers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Gandhi famously led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 Dandi Salt March. Gandhi wanted the British to leave India and allow it to be independent, but he was imprisoned for this act. Gandhi protested the British government by performing a series of civil disobedience acts. After the World War two India manage to gain there independence from Britain, and Gandhi called off the struggle, and around 100,000 political prisoners were released. These three important people that used non-violent civil disobedience shows that the government is not always right, and is not always fair to the people they are governing. Through non-violent Civil Disobedience people can finally say what they have in there mind, and stand up for themselves, instead of letting an unfair government system tell them what they should do and what they should not be doing.
Civil disobedience: is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. The world has many examples of people who have used civil disobedience in order to change the world to make it a better place; these people have helped shape the world into what it is today. Civil disobedience can be as small as a simple sit in, or can be as big as an organized march through the street with police attempting to stop you with aggressive tactics. But the number one rule in civil disobedience is to not retaliate in any way, shape or form because one you do that you’re just as good as the people that you are protesting against. A powerful leader in a civil disobedience movement was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement was to lead India to independence from the tyrannical unjust British. Gandhi started the non- cooperation movement, the movement was all about Indians not cooperating with the British but not using any form of violence against the British in the process. Gandhi heavily influenced his people with his powerful speeches and without him being a powerful face in this revolution the people in India today still may not have their independence from the British. Another powerful leader that has used civil disobedience to help unfairness was Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was motivated in his civil disobedience act by his hatred of slavery and the Mexican- American war. Thoreau argued that the government that governs least is a good government; I think he said this because if the citizens are just in their actions then there is no needs to have a government govern anything because the citizens are handling their responsibilities. Thoreau was such a powerful activist that he influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King jr. in their acts of civil disobedience. Thoreau noticed that most governments are more harmful against their people than helpful. In a way you can view Thoreau as an anarchist because of his ideas toward the government, but if he was an anarchist he would be a just one because if the government was not corrupt systematic and a dictatorship then he would have nothing against it. Another powerful activist in civil disobedience was Martin Luther King jr. King was a leader in the American civil rights movements, which was all about getting all Americans no matter, race or genders the same rights as one another. King helped organize the 385 day boycott from the buss systems which urged all blacks not to ride buss until they received fair treatment and could sit anywhere without having to get up for a white man. He also gave a powerful “I Have a Dream” speech in which he talked about having equality for not just blacks but all races in American. King was such a powerful leader that he was assassinated while spreading his words of fair treatment around America. Civil disobedience is a powerful weapon against any government that is being unjust because if carried out long enough and with enough sacrifices the government will always have to give in or it will crumble.
Civil disobedience is an illegal act performed publicly in contravention of a law. This might be political act because of its principles of the political justice. Civil is an act that is in a good manner, not revolting or no criminal in its methods. Civil disobedience can be acted in big crowds of people or by one single individual. Theirs is many ways that civil disobedience can be performed such as boycotts, strikes, marches, mass meetings of people, and many more. The person who all started the famous theory civil disobedience was Henry David Thoreau a writer that made civil disobedience appear in the year 1866 four years after his death. Thoreau had only two rules about civil disobedience the first one is the authority of the government depends on the constant government. The second one is that is superior to the laws enacted by the government and individual has the right to judge whether a given law reflects of flouts justice. Thoreau influenced the most recognized people which were Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. who used civil disobedience against the people they want to fight with but with words not actions. Gandhi civil disobedience was first brought in 1906 in South Africa were he made it to his campaign for the defense of civil rights against Indian immigrants that were discriminated. He made civil disobedience his first moral force behind his leadership of the Indian nationalist movement to fight for was right without violence. Another person who used civil disobedience in his power was the famous Martin Luther King Jr. for the civil rights of the African Americans in the United States of America . One of the most read letters of the civil disobedience time was “Letter from Birmingham jail” were he addressed to his fellow African American to tell them what the nonviolent action to get rid of segregationist laws in America. I think civil disobedience is a great way for any individual or groups of people to express themselves without getting into problems with the law , but in some cases they did back then where they got put into jail for what they thought was right thing to do but others did not. Civil disobedience is used because its addressing what people think and what should be changed but in order to do that they have the rights to say anything that can prove a point without violence only words.
The definition of civil disobedience could be an illegal act performed publicly in contravention of a law or laws of the government for the short-term purpose of bringing about a change in the law or laws and for the long-term purpose of improving society as a whole. While others see civil disobedience as something that shouldn’t be practiced since all laws are made to protect us, but who is to say what will keep our country safe and peaceful. The idea of civil disobedience has developed over a long period of time. The concepts are drawn from different periods of history and also different cultures who have contributed to its evolution. The idea that there is a law that transcends the laws of the state is found in Socrates. Yet in the middle Ages, St. Thomas Aquinas defended the natural-law view that unjust laws did not bind the citizen in conscience. While John Locke taught that the government derived its authority from the people, that one of the purposes of the government was the protection of the natural rights of the people, and that the people had the right to alter the government should it be unsuccessful to discharge its primary duties. Gandhi inspired by men like the ones previously mentioned helped set his country free from foreign power. Mahatma Gandhi widened the view of civil disobedience and internationalized its practice. Gandhi’s civil disobedience acts started in 1906 in South Africa. His campaign was for the defense of the civil rights of the Indian immigrants who forced to work for low wages and were practically enslaved. After returning to India in 1915, he made civil disobedience the main moral force behind his leadership of the Indian nationalist movement. Gandhi called his practice "satyagraha," a Gujarati word meaning "firmness in adhering to truth." Satyagraha introduced six essentials into the theory and practice of civil disobedience. First, its moral basis was grounded in truth, a basis much deeper than that provided by the theory of consent. To be binding, laws had to be truthful. All untruthful laws had to be opposed, though politely; that is, by truthful means. Second, civil disobedience assumed the obligation to obey the government: only those had the right to practice civil disobedience who knew "how to offer voluntary and deliberate obedience" to the laws of the state. Third, commitment to nonviolence was a vital component of civil disobedience. Fourth, the practice of civil disobedience entailed a minimum degree of moral fitness, to be gained by the exercise of such virtues as truthfulness, nonviolence, temperance, courage, fearlessness, and freedom from greed. Fifth, a practitioner of civil disobedience had to accept the punishment resulting to the disobedience voluntarily, and without complaint. Finally, engagement in civil disobedience had to be complemented by engagement in organized social work. Gandhi has changed and influenced people around the world through his peaceful actions in India and Africa. This shows that civil disobedience can peacefully and effectively change things in the government if applied correctly. Civil disobedience fights the injustices in the government systems.
Civil Disobedience is a long history as a form of protest and resistance. Standing up for what you believe in and fighting for your rights. It's a method to force change by drawing attention to a problem and influencing public opinion. It's generally understood to be nonviolent The purpose of civil disobedience is to convey a political message.
The poem “Resistance to Civil Government” by Henry David Thoreau was a great example of Civil Disobedience. Thoreau was a man who was sent in jail for not paying his taxes. The first time that Thoreau lectured his ideas on civil disobedience was in Concord, Massachusetts, under the name, “On the Relation of the Individual to the State”.
Martin Luther King also used Civil Disobedience. He believed that all people should be treated equal. He fought for what he believed in. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin Luther King expanded American values to include the vision of a color blind society, and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. He was then assassinated in April 4, 1968, in Memphis.
Mohandis Ghandi was an Indian leader began a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Gandhi protested the British government by performing a series of civil disobedience acts. After the World War two India manage to gain there independence from Britain, and Gandhi called off the struggle, and around 100,000 political prisoners were released. He got arrested. In January 1931, Gandhi was released from prison. Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist less than six months later.
Civil Disobedience was used by several people. They did it for what they thought was right. Civil disobedience is also used till this day. Civil disobedience is used because its addressing what people think and what should be changed but in order to do that they have the rights to say anything that can prove a point without violence only words.
Civil disobedience is when the people protest nonviolently and use passive resistance by breaking the law. It is all about changing the view of the government by standing up for what you believe in. It has always been like that, because if you do not then who will? The government sees us as products that they can use for their own gain. They don't care and the only reason there is civil disobedience is because of them. All American fingers are pointing at them and only them. The laws and mandates we are told to do are somewhat redundant sometimes. The first amendment "Freedom of Speech" is just something written on the Bill of Rights that means nothing. We try to protest but rampages start. People are put in jail and for what reason? Thoreau, an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and tax resister, got put in jail because he wouldn't pay taxes. The government has an unfortunate hunger and thirst for grabbing the money from the hard working people and for what? Does anyone have any idea what they use it for? Finding stupid life on other planets instead of worrying about the one they are living on right now. They are busy starting wars and aren't doing such a good job of ending it. Thoreau's view of the government is that it rarely proves itself needed. He thinks that people should not follow a law that is unjust. He thinks that A person is not obligated to devote his life to eliminating evils from the world, but he is obligated not to participate in such evils. Thoreau influenced many public figures such as Ghandi, John Muir, Dr. King and so many more. Ghandi was against taxes, violence, and discrimination. He practiced civil disobedience by using the hunger strike method. He also led many protests throughout India letting the people who practiced violence know of the unjust discrimination. He used non-violence and piece as a weapon. Soldiers would hate him and find excuses to put him in jail but he'd say he did nothing wrong, and always defending himself. He was just another human. But of course this never changed, and discrimination still exists till today. John Muir believed in civil disobedience and also admitted he was influenced by Thoreau. Muir valued nature for its spiritual and transcendental qualities. He co-founded the Sierra Club which helped establish a number of national parks after he died, and today has over 1.3 million members. His eloquent words changed the way Americans saw their mountains, forests, seashores, and deserts. He was against violence, and the violence towards nature. He thought money should not be made by destroying Yosemite. Dr. King was another person who was influenced by Thoreau and practiced civil disobedience. He wanted and did end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience. He supported Rosa Parks because of her stand up against racism when she refused to give up her bus seat. His influence stayed and showed that violence and discrimination was never the way to solve things. He changed that by not using violence and all these people that used civil disobedience proved it to be effective.
According to Wikipedia Civil Disobedience is the active, declared rejection to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. In other words is an act of disobeying the law or commands of an authority figure to make a political statement. According to Ronald Dworkin, who was an American philosopher and scholar of constitutional law, there are three different forms of civil disobedience which are Integrity-based; civil disobedience occurs when a citizen disobeys a law he feels is immoral, Justice-based; civil disobedience occurs when a citizen disobeys laws in order to lay claim to some right denied to him, and Policy-based; civil disobedience occurs when a person breaks the law in order to change a policy (s)he believes is dangerously wrong. Civil Disobedience is also an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In this essay Thoreau argues that individuals should not authorizes governments to overrule or waste their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such agreement to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. One of the many notable practitioners, who have used it to instigate social change, is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born 1869 and died in 1948. Gandhi was the “pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement” says Wikipedia. “He was a figure known worldwide for advocating non-violent civil disobedience.” His philosophies during the Indian independence movement were “to express no anger, never retaliate, submit to the opponent's orders and assaults, submit to arrest by the authorities, surrender personal property when confiscated by the authorities but refuse to surrender property held in trust, refrain from swearing and insults, refrain from saluting the Union flag, and protect officials from insults and assaults even at the risk of the resister's own life.” Nelson Mandela is another example of a notable practitioner. Wikipedia says “He was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island.” He was released from prison in 1990 and served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Martin Luther King Jr. was also a practitioner of civil disobedience. He was a Baptist minister, and became a civil rights activist early in his career. King used nonviolent approach by using peace marches, protest and campaigns such as the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1963 march on Washington, and 1968 poor people campaign. The 1955 Montgomery Bus boycott started because of Rosa Parks, an African American woman who wouldn’t lift her tired body to get out of her bus seat to let a white woman sit down. In the middle of the bus boycott King realized that nonviolence was the best way to protest. Civil Disobedience was used in history for influencing movements led by these great activists. Without these philosophers some laws that are made now may not have been made if they hadn’t broken the law first.
Civil disobedience is the refusal to obey the laws, demands, and commands of a government. Civil disobedience is mostly a nonviolent resistance. It is use to change laws or an entire government that are unjust to people. It has been use in history by people like Henry David Thoreau Mahatma Gandhi martin Luther king jr and Rosa parks there are three types of civil disobedience there is integrity based, disobeying a law that is immoral, justice based, disobeying a law that denies a person a right that is given and policy based, breaking a law that the person believes is wrong. Thoreau essay’s resistance to civil disobedience is founding stone of civil disobedience the ideas in his essay where what inspire Gandhi and Martin Luther King to do what they did. In India during the 1910 to the 1940 Handy led the Indian independence movement using the idea of civil disobedience against the British raj that control India he preach to his follow citizen to use a nonviolent approach to gaining independence by non violent protest, boycott on British goods, he outline several rules for civil resisters or satyagrahi they were not to express anger, never retaliate, submit to the opponents orders and assaults, submit to arrest and surrender personal property when confiscated by authorities. During the American civil rights movement during the 1950 to 1960 both martin Luther king jr and Rosa parks follow the idea of civil disobedience to end segregation in the U.S Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister that led the Montgomery bus boycott and he also led the march to Washington where he deliver his I have a dream speech. Martin Luther King through nonviolence resistance made it possible to end segregation with the civil rights act. Also very involve and the reason for the Montgomery bus boycott was Rosa parks whose refusal to give up her seat for a white man led to her arrest that led to African Americans boycotting. There actions have made them iconic figure for civil disobedience,
Some notable practitioners of civil disobedience include Henry Thoreau, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi. They are known for their non violent ways of social change in the unjust. The works of these practitioners have shaped today’s society. The influence of Thoreau was awakening the title of civil disobedience to the citizens. Thoreau’s book civil disobedience has a lot of significance. One for example is that the power of the government should be based off of the people that they are governing. Today we still apply this, for example when people vote for any government office. Voting is filters out the unpopular and the most popular which ultimately satisfy what the people governed want. Another significance of Thoreau was creating an idea that people can speak out against the unjust. An individual capable of protecting himself from tyranny reflects power to the people. In Thoreau’s situation he thought it was unfair that he was forced to pay a tax to support the Mexican American war and slavery which he was opposed to. The consequence of this was a night in jail where he wrote civil disobedience. Economic civil disobedience demonstrated by Thoreau had influenced his time and has even influenced later social equality so much that Thoreau’s movements that have shaped today’s society. The civil rights movement over racial equality is an example of non violent civil disobedience. Rosa parks and Martin Luther King Jr are examples of people that demonstrated the power of civil disobedience’s non violence and successfully changed the society in the 50s and society today. Rosa parks act of refusing her seat also started the boycott of riding the Alabama bus which exemplifies civil disobedience. Although she knew the consequences which were jail, fines and even threats or death, she still acted against the government. For the followers that contributed by boycotting the busses their act of civil disobedience also contributed to the civil rights movements. By publically showing what she had done and how she had stepped up and kindled the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr stressed the meaning of non violence in acting against segregation. He showed this through speeches and with large crowds. He needed people to accept beating and the consequences to make the government fell guilty and shame for beating and killings. He was successful in making this change. This is an example of Thoreau’s civil disobedience that people can make change by speaking out against what is wrong. The impact of Gandhi using civil disobedience has shaped today’s society. His ideas were improving the Indian society by writing about caste violence, caste segregation and women equality. He did this by identifying which laws were truthful and which were untruthful, and by taking part in civil disobedience one must accept the consequences and also making nonviolence inherent. Gandhi’s civil disobedience also said to disobey the state but not to turn to revolution; the person that practices it does it with virtues and in order for change to occur there needs to be organized social work
Civil disobedience is refusing to do something that is legal and doing something illegal and try changing it by your illegal action. Civil disobedience was done by Thoreau because he refused to pay taxes on a house that he had not lived in for a while. So he didn’t pay the taxes for six years , a lot of people didn’t agree with the government but still paid taxes , there act showed that they supported it .and he was sent to jail and that’s where he wrote his “Civil Disobedience” essay. Thoreau was release from jail because someone paid his tax. In my opinion I don’t think they should of paid the tax because whoever paid it was agreeing with the government and Thoreau wasn’t so he was willing to pay the price of not paying the taxes. Shortly after Thoreau was Gandhi! Gandhi fought for the Indians immigrants. “His idea of civil disobedience drew from a wide variety of intellectual sources. Plato's Apology of Socrates was one of them. In 1908 he published a paraphrase of it under the title The Story of a Soldier of Truth.”Gandhi called practice "satyagraha," a Gujarati word meaning "firmness in adhering to truth." Gandhi protected the Indians from the British because of the Indian nationalist movement. He was called father in his country. He fought for the Indian rights! He was sent to jail many times and Gandhi was influenced by Thoreau and Hinduism, Another person was martin Luther king jr. he fought for the civil right in untied state, he was influenced by Thoreau and Gandhi movement. King started the civil right movement after this day that Rosa parks was tired form work and didn’t give a white man her seat , and was sent to jail for not giving a white man her seat. So he started a protest against “bus segregation.” King was arrested and they stetted his house on fire! After the “Montgomery Bus Boycott, King wrote Stride Toward Freedom (1958)”.king went around the U.S inspiring people to be involved the “civil right movement.”” The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.” All of these people that have used civil disobedience got it from Thoreau they all fought for something good the most effective one was martin Luther king’s jr, because if it wasn’t for him I think the world would still be the same, or even more worst. They all did acts that were non violence which was a good thing because with violence it would have been even worse. In my opinion I think it’s the best way to show the government or an authority that you don’t agree with something when you don’t do what has been asked to do. And when you try to enforce to them your thought and how things should be done.
Civil Disobedience is when someone doesn't obey a law or orders from the government. This could also be classified as a non violent way not to solve something but to settle something in a more non violent matter. Basically a way of protesting with out causing a big fight but could be a big scene with people protesting about something that isn't right and that they have all the right to. There has been so many numerous cases of this where people protest in a somewhat more "peaceful way" but overall it's still causing a scene but still if the issue is avoiding there rights then they are in the right not the wrong. A good example i can think of is the short story we just read in class of Thoreau who really shows a key great example of civil disobedience and what it represents and brings out the true meaning of standing up for what you believe for. Standing up for your rights is a big role in history to today and that is something someone can't take away from you something that most of us keep close to us our equality and rights. Sometimes this is doing something bigger making a change that can actually change history and present day as we know it to stand up have a voice don't be scared or put down by higher power you have something to say say it. If you have a good supported reason to protest non violently go for it. This is also a method often used to solve something with out a issue just because you are in a sometimes massive group of people doesn't mean your gonna fight and be violent fix what there complaining about and then there will be no need for this. Clearley this is a nice effective way of solving a much bigger issue then something small and the way it's effective just shows everyone violence is not the issue and using the and actually applying Civil Disobedience just makes everything that much easier to solve or even deal with. If your ever put inside a situation that you don't agree with don't get violent protest nicely or use civil disobedience and there shall be no need for any violence. The reason this has lasted so long came such a long way is that this is such a great way of solving things Civil Disobedience is the way to go and thing to use that is Civil Disobedience
Some people think civil disobedience is done by “crazy”, selfish individuals who always want things done their way. But in my perspective, those “crazy” people are just standing up for what is right. Like we all know, we are all ruled and organized by one single government in America. It’s typical that we might not all want to obey these rules because of our different lifestyles and personalities, but most of us do nothing about it. There are those rules that we really don’t agree with, that if someone stands up for it, may make a change. For example, Henry David Thoreau. He didn’t believe in paying taxes because it went to unnecessary things. Plus, they were taxing the lower class, and not the wealthy, which actually had the money to pay tax. Thoreau was put in jail for this kind of civil disobedience. Sometimes this sort of disobedience can lead to revolutions, or rebellions. The philosophy behind civil disobedience goes back to classical and biblical sources. Thoreau claims that the individual, who grants the state its power in the first place, must follow the rules of conscience in opposing unjust laws. Inspired by Ghandi’s actions to gain Indian rights in South Africa, he decided to stand up for what he thought was right. There are many others that indulge in civil disobedience, for example, suffragists, feminists, and supporters of the disabled. In the United States, the most outstanding practitioner of civil disobedience was the civil-rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. During the 1950s and 60s he gained fame by leading many marches, and boycotts. He was also jailed several times. Martin Luther King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, showing up wherever there was injustice, protest, and action. During this time, he wrote five books and a whole lot of articles. In these years, he led a huge protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, supporting what he called a “coalition of conscience”. He then directed the peaceful march in Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his famous speech of all time, "l Have a Dream”.
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Civil disobedience is a way people did to not obey a law that they not like of a government or a higher power. Usually it is a peaceful way for people to protest against the government of the laws that the citizens do not like. Civil disobedience is one of the many ways people have rebelled against what they deem to be unfair laws. When the government makes a law and the people does not like it, they peacefully protest against the government or a higher power than them. But usually the people who do civil disobedience are non-violence people. They do not believe in violence so they cooperate with what the police will do to them, but they do not fight against anybody. People usually do this type of protest because it is a more peaceful way to protest. Many people do it this way to show the government that they are willing to do anything that is possible for them to get rid of that law that they do not like. It is usually an act against what the government tells you to do. Why does the government make law that they know that the people will not like it? They already know people will fight against them, so why do it still? Many of the people that have done civil disobedience are Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. They both believed in non-violence type of protesting. They both have read the essay that Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1848. In Thoreau’s essay he explained his reasons for having refused to pay taxes as an act of protect against slavery and against the Mexican-American war. As for Martin Luther King Jr., he protested against segregation in American. He wanted blacks and whites to be integrated and not to be segregated. He did many peaceful marches and even went to jail. He did his famous speech “I Have a Dream” and millions of people attended it. As for Gandhi, he protested against the British people to leave India and to let them be free. He too went to jail just for his people to be free. The person that usually does the protesting against the government or a higher power is people that most people respect. It is usually people that are most likely for people not to believe them at first but then after awhile they will believe them and follow them. To me civil disobedience is alright because people are just trying to tell the government or higher power that they do not like what they do to them. It is just a way for them to peacefully disagree with them. It is either doing peaceful protests or having a war with your own people just because of one stupid law that is senseless. Civil disobedience is a non-violence way to disagree with the government or a higher power than the people. If the government or higher power people does not want people to fight against them, then they should always do what the people want.
Civil disobedience is where people have their own beliefs on the laws that the government has and what has it says. The main people that had disobedience were Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., these men fight for their beliefs on a better utopian world. Henry David Thoreau was thrown in jail just because he didn’t pay for his house when he was in the forest for six years and that wasn’t fair for them to place him under arrest for not paying the house. While he was in jail he said a famous quote which was can we be humans first, then objects what he is trying to say is that as humans being they have the right to do anything if they put their mind into it. Gandhi he had fought for his people in South Africa when the Britain government took over the Salt Factory. Gandhi was sick and tired of seeing his people not having their jobs and so he thought not use violence and so they had a nonviolence strike on the factory. The mob was in rows and the first row went first, they walked in front of the guards and the guards started beating the people the second row went up and it happen the same thing and so come the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and so forth. The guards were tired of seeing these people and beating them and they gave up and left and so Gandhi was savior to all of his people and one of his quotes motivated them to do this strike and the quote was It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence, which means that there will be times to use violence, but don’t use violence to be a solution to every problem that a person may have. Martin Luther King Jr. he has fought for equal rights for all African American citizens he had a dream where little white boys and little black boys would join together to be friends. He had a plan to drive to Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voter. He did this so that his people also have a the opportunity to vote and everyone’s vote counts and have a voice to speak the truth about slavery and about how it wasn’t fair for them to sit in the back in the bus and they couldn’t drink from a different water fountain. King was sick and tired of seeing his people suffer and not having the same rights as the whites and he made a boycott on the buses with the help of Rosa Parks. They had a great friendship together and they worked with each other ever since she was in jail for sitting in the front of the bus when the bus driver had told her that she had to sit in the back, but Rosa was too tired to move and she sat on the front. From this point King had helped her get her justice, but not only hers but to his people.
Civil Disobedience is the technique to say what you believe in or your own opinion. Basically you are trying to break the governments law and rebel against it. It is usually started just by one man, it just takes one man to start a rebellion. But these rebellions aren't just created to make the government go crazy, they are made to justify the human rights! One of the most important Civil Disobedience impacts most known today are from Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Mahatma Gandhi. They might have all fought for something different, but the y all fought for their rights. Henry David Thoreau believed that individuals should not permit the government to overrule or take advantage of their consciences. He claimed that governments are more harmful than helpful, therefore they cannot be justified. The idea Thoreau came up with was moving out to the wilderness; just him by himself, not paying anything, not depending on any one, not dealing with government's issues. The day he returns home, he was immediately put to jail: Thoreau had not been living in his house, but he still had to pay rent and taxes. He tried to prove a point, but he was just in jail just for one night. Thoreau claimed that no one outside his jail cell is more free than he is inside. It did not bother him that he was in jail, in matter of fact, he loved being there because he did not have to pay for tax or rent. He tried to go against the government but sadly his aunt paid his bills. Mahatma Gandhi was once a lawyer, defending human rights in South Africa. In South Africa, Gandhi faced the discrimination directed at Indians. Once in a train he was thrown out because he refused to move from first - class to third - class coach, while holding a first- class ticket. There so many more events that made Gandhi to awaken to the social injustice in the world. Gandhi asked for people to follow his plans, to do what he says and to follow the consequences that followed. Eventually the government was not going to have enough space to arrest so many prisoners. The smart part of his plans was that he did involve his followers with violence, even though they might have been imprisoned for that reason. As the government offended the Indians, Gandhi also offended the government with words. As well as Gandhi, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., dealt with racism. Rosa and Martin were both tired of being judged and humiliated, so they both decided to create a movement. They broke laws and disrespected the white Americans, but they did it for equal treatment. They stood up for our rights no matter the consequences. They dealt with the cruelty of the government. They showed their feelings with boycotts, protests and strikes. Martin Luther King did not just only focused only on the rights of the African Americans, he also helped all the races! Just one person can change humanity, but it comes with help of the followers.
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Emma Goldman was one of the many notable practioners that instigate social change. But she did it in a different way her anarchist political philosophy kind of way. By writing and giving speeches this attracted many crowds. That wasn't the only way later she did instigated ways to social change mostly towards women's rights and social issues. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi did a lot to social change. His philosophy of nonviolent resistance to illegitimate authority. Also his mass civil disobedience campaigns that help form of popular political struggle. He went through a lot but at the end everything came out how he wanted it to go like. Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist. He's refusing to pay a poll tax lead him to jail. Which later all the experience got him to make his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Cesar Chavez the founder of the UFWU, he used non-violent sometimes illegal. To make attention towards their causes and create change in institutional policies. Martin Luther King Jr. was who led the nations peaceful civil right movement. Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Workers Movement and winner of the dispossessed. There was a majority of people that did change with their philosophy. And at the end most people were grateful for these people.
ReplyDeleteCivil disobedience most people don’t really know what it means or how you can use it. Civil disobedience yes you do have to break the law but you break the law in order to get what you want or to have justice where you think there needs to be. Civil disobedience means to perform illegal act publicity in contravention of laws of the government. Most people use civil disobedience in the wrong way they break the law because they want to. For example there are people who disobey the law for dumb and idiotic reasons like they smoke pot because they want to legalized marijuana. But then there is the people who disobey the law because they want to send a message to everyone to stand up for what they think is right and can make a change.
ReplyDeleteFor example one person who made a change in the world by disobeying the law was Gandhi. Although Gandhi was from a relatively wealthy family he decided he must help the poor. Gandhi also wanted India to be free from British rule. He and his followers held marches and processions, demanding fairness for all people, but, as in South Africa, at no time did Gandhi allow the use of violence. Gandhi believed in ahimsa, non-violence. Gandhi also believed that as a Hindu he should try to detach himself from the material things of the world. He gave up his wealth and often chooses to live among the poor instead. He dreamt of an India in which Hindus and other religious communities lived side by side without prejudice or discrimination. People would live a simple, spiritual life in villages rather than large towns or cities.
Now another person who fought against the government was very important mane named Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights movement was about when black people weren't treated well by white people. They didn't go to the same schools; use the same bathrooms and much more. One other famous person that fought against the separation of white and black people was Rosa Parks. She was sitting on a bus one day. When a white person asked her to move, she refused to give up her seat. Back then, if you were black, you had to give up your seat to a white person. She was arrested because of what she did. Martin Luther King Jr. led a protest and black people didn't ride the buses for over a year. This is one of the peaceful things that he did to fight for civil rights.
Although Dr. King was arrested several times, he was never violent. This angered some policemen because they wanted him to get violent, so they would have a reason to arrest him. His home was also bombed, but he didn't quit leading protests. His plan was to send a message and that was that everyone should be equal no matter the color of their skin. Dr. King used Gandhi’s way of protesting with no violence which made it surprising for cops and government, because they were waiting on riots and what not.
This just proves that breaking the law isn’t always bad well only as long as your breaking the law for a very good reason like justice. Anyone now a days can be like Dr.King or Gandhi just as long as they know how to fight the government for what they want.
Civil Disobedience is a method of standing up for what you believe in, by illegally performing an act publicly in contravention of a government law. Civil Disobedience isn’t just breaking the law, but changing the law to improve society as a whole. Although many people throughout history have practiced Civil Disobedience, those who have made the greatest impact on society were Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.
ReplyDeleteHenry David Thoreau, the author of “Resistance to Civil Government”, was one of the first to practice Civil Disobedience. Thoreau escaped to the wilderness for a year and when he came back to his home under the state, he was jailed for not paying his taxes. Thoreau strongly believed that he shouldn’t pay taxes if he hadn’t been living there, even though the property belonged to him. Thoreau didn’t really agree with the government, for he even declared “That government is best which governs least”. Even though many people didn’t agree with the government, they still supported it by paying there taxes. Thoreau on the other hand wouldn’t pay his taxes because he didn’t want to support the government. Here Thoreau demonstrates his resistance to the government, just like Gandhi would do later on.
Mahatma Gandhi was the person who brought civil disobedience to its complete realization. Gandhi fought for Indian rights and for the eradication of the caste system. He went to India to gather support against the British and than broadened the scope of civil disobedience by preaching individual noncompliance and passive resistance, bringing several of his fellow Indians to protest against the British. Gandhi practiced nonviolent resistance by lying in the streets and refusing to move and his boycott on British goods and services finally ended the British rule. Another person who practiced Civil Disobedience very similarly like Gandhi was Martin Luther King Jr.
Influenced by Gandhi's methods, Dr. King was the leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The very unjust laws against the African Americans led Dr.King to fight for their rights, again with nonviolence. One of the most memorable acts of the Civil Rights movement was when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. She was breaking the law when she did this, but once jailed, she planted the seed for several other African Americans to act out against the law. Dr.Kings “I Have A Dream” speech was the close to the movement where he declared his dreams for the nation and showed that this movement was successful .
Civil Disobedience was used for in history’s most impacting movements by Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. Thoreau started the basic understanding of Civil Disobedience, which than led to Gandhi expanding it and Martin Luther King Jr. using it to change America’s future for the better. If they didn’t go against the law, who knows what would of been of this world. It takes true passion, guts, and heart to break the law for something you strongly believe in.
Civil disobedience is an illegal act performed publicly in contravention of a law or laws of the government for the short-term purpose of bringing about a change in the law or laws and for the long-term purpose of improving society as a whole. In other words it’s performing an act to persuade the government to make a change. It’s called “civil” because of the manner it’s performed in. It can be carried out by one person or a lot of people. There a few ways people can carry out civil disobedience such as fasts, burning of documents, strikes and so on. The idea of civil disobedience has evolved over time by taking ideas from different periods of time and different cultures. Some of the people that contributed to this are Socrates, St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Locke. There are some more people such as Thoreau, whose writing made this concept famous. Gandhi internationalized the practice. Martin Luther King Jr. also helped develop the practice of civil disobedience.
ReplyDeleteThoreau was a famous writer who gave this practice the name “civil disobedience” and helps further its development by writing about it. He wrote the story “Civil Disobedience.” Thoreau had two main conceptions about civil disobedience. “The authority of the government depends on the consent of the governed. Justice is superior to the laws enacted by the government, and the individual has the right to judge whether a given law reflects or flouts justice.” He is saying that individuals have the right to say if something is just or not, not the law. Thoreau stayed a night in jail because he thought the laws upholding slavery and supporting the Mexican War were unjust. He would rather stay in jail than to be imprisoned by the laws of the government.
Gandhi started civil disobedience in South Africa in 1906, to defend the civil rights of Indian immigrants. His ideas for civil disobedience were influenced by Plato’s Apology of Socrates. At first he didn’t know what to call “civil disobedience.” Some called it “passive resistance.” Gandhi didn’t like it because the British Passive Resistance Movement did not forbid violence to achieve its goal. He later called it “satyagraha” which means firmness in adhering to truth. It had six elements that went into the practice of civil disobedience. First, its moral basis was grounded in truth, a basis much deeper than that provided by the theory of consent. To be binding, laws had to be truthful. All untruthful laws had to be resisted, though civilly—that is, by truthful means. Second, civil disobedience presupposed the obligation to obey the state: only those had the right to practice civil disobedience who knew "how to offer voluntary and deliberate obedience" to the laws of the state. Third, commitment to nonviolence was an essential component of civil disobedience. The commitment in question could be either moral or tactical, depending on the moral aptitude of the practitioner. Fourth, the practice of civil disobedience required a minimum degree of moral fitness, to be acquired by the exercise of such virtues as truthfulness, nonviolence, temperance, courage, fearlessness, and freedom from greed. Fifth, a practitioner of civil disobedience had to accept the punishment consequent to the disobedience voluntarily, and without complaint. Finally, engagement in civil disobedience had to be complemented by engagement in organized social work. Then he created Constructive Progamme to identify social evils against Indian immigrants.
Martin Luther King Jr. used civil disobedience throughout the civil rights movement. He was influenced by Gandhi and Christian humanism. Segregation laws were unjust and had to be disobeyed. Civil disobedience became widely used in protest in the late twentieth century.
Civil disobedience has been the cause of lots of change around the world. With the help of Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. it has developed into a strong tool. It is still used today and is very effective.
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ReplyDeleteCivil Disobedience is the refusal of a certain law from people who want to change it or are opposed to it. What makes it civil is the use of non violence when opposing to the law. Some examples of civil disobedience: When Rosa Parks refeused to give up her seat. Other forms of the law inclued: Tresspassing, obstructing traffic abd refusing to pay taxes or being drafted into the military. Civil disobedience played a large role in history to get us where we are today, all the strikes and bycotts and everything.
Rosa parkes showed civil disobedience when she refused to give up her seat to a white becuase back then it was illegal for the whites to sit in the front of the bus or for blacks to "disrespect" whites by not giving their seats up for them on the bus. Other famous historical figures that used civil disobedience to change the life of many people are Ghandi, Martin Luther King and Thoreau.
Ghandi used civil disobedience in many ways to show people what was "right". He always remained non violent and always had a tranquil side to himself. Ghandi began Ghandian civil disobedience in 1906 in South America. He called his practice "Satyagraha" which means "firmness to the truth". Eventually using his form of civil disobedience he helped India gain independence. Ghandi led marches, and even fasted that drew the attention of many people which led them to become more aware of whin at was going on in the world.
Along with Ghandi there was Thoreau. Thoreau was the one who oficially put civil disobedience into practice and "named" it. The original concept he called" Ressistance to governement" which later appeared as "Civil Disobedience" once he passed away in 1866.
Then there was Martin Luther King. In the middle of the bus boycott that was started by Rosa Parks he realized that non violence was the best way to go and the best way to protest. Later in 1958 King formed a southern Christian Leadership confrence that was dedicated to justice for blacks but using non violence. Bloody Sunday was considered the crowning glory of King's non violent protest stuggle, Before his assasination his non violent and psychological philosophy were used in other minority groups. From King's use of civil disobedience it has started the SNCC (Student non violent coordination comitee) following the creation of this comitee there were three black students that participated in sit in, they were racially segrigated and discriminated against because of their race. This has inspired many college students to participate in different Sit ins.
Overall, Civil disobedience is a form of fighting without violence. Many people do not think of how without using violence you can achieve what you want, or even just how one person can make a difference. Thoreau, Ghandi, and King have all made a big impact using civil disobedience in the world, Changing many different peoples life and also they have changed how it has formed along the way to become know as "Civil Disobedience" today.
The essay “civil disobedience” talks about how people should stand up to the government, the author Henry David Thoreau who was inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and his Transcendentalism movement. He was inspired to make this allegory when he was jailed for one night for not paying his taxes. He thought that this was outrageous that he would pay taxes for his home, but he did not live there for one year. Civil disobedience is when you break a law to protest the unjust law. People like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and Nelson Mandela used civil disobedience to change unjust laws in there respected countries. These men read civil disobedience and understand that if you want change in the government then you have to threaten the core of the country by not going to work or buying products from the government that is oppressing it.
ReplyDeleteMahatma Gandhi is one of the first people to use the theory of Civil Disobedience in action. But he did not use it in India first, he first practice it in South Africa during the Zulu War of 1906. Two British solders got killed by a Zulu because of a new tax the British had enforced. The British had declared war on the Zulu nation, and Gandhi asked that if Indian solders can be in the army. The British refused but they could volunteer to aid British soldiers. The Indian were leaded by Gandhi, and he urged the Indian population to help in the war efforts. He wrote in the Indian Opinion: “If the Government only realised what reserve force is being wasted, they would make use of it and give Indians the opportunity of a thorough training for actual warfare.” Gandhi tried to get India’s independence through various methods like noncooperation to British politics and mass revolt of British product. Gandhi tried to separate the social barrier from rich to poor, the poor people were called “untouchable” and they were mainly indentured laborers and farmers. In Champaran, a district in state of Bihar, thousands of landless serfs, indentured laborers, and poor farmers were forced to grow indigo and other cash crops instead of the food crops necessary for their survival. These goods were bought from them at a very low price. Suppressed by the ruthless militias of the landlords they were given measly compensation, leaving them mired in extreme poverty. The protests worked and the farmers could farm whatever they want. The salt march was also important because it was illegal for Indian to get salt form the ocean. Gandhi and thousands of Indians were taking salt in the ocean, the British responded by arresting 60,000 Indians. India got their independence in On 3 June 1947.
Martin Luther king Jr was also inspired by the nonviolent civil disobedience movement. He used the non-violent protest that Gandhi used in India. Even though the idea was created decades ago it still was just as effective. In December 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference became involved in the Albany movement. According to the Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr “When King first visited on December 15, 1961, he had planned to stay a day or so and return home after giving counsel." But he got arrested and chooses to stay in jail until he was persuaded to pay the bail. Then he July 1962 he was jailed again and sentenced forty-five days in jail or a $178 fine, he chooses jail. Then three days in jail, Chief Pritchett discreetly get someone else to pay the fine. This was considered the first time someone got kicked out of jail! One of most famous protest in civil rights movement was the march to Washington D.C. This was one of main reason why the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) was passed.
The essay “civil disobedience” had a major influence in the civil rights movement that was around the world. Even today people are using their rights to protest laws that are considered unjust in their eyes.
Civil Disobedience is basically an act of standing up for what you believe in and what is also right. There have been many times where people stand up for what they believe in and have been written in history. For example, we’ve read about Civil Disobedience by Thoreau. Thoreau decided to stop paying his taxes for about 6 years and was sent to jail. The only reason he was let out of jail was because his aunt paid his poll taxes. If it weren’t for Thoreau’s aunt, he would have been in jail a lot longer than one day and he would be happy to stay in jail due to not paying his taxes.
ReplyDeleteRosa Parks sat on the front of the bus and unwilling to give up her seat to a white man when told to move to the back of the bus. She refused because she was sitting in the first seat allowed for “colored” people and when the bus driver seen that one white man was left standing he asked Rosa to get up and she refused so he called the police. She even asked the police men why did they push them around and all he could say was, “I don’t know. But the law is the law…” Now because of her actions, she’s titled “Mother of Civil Rights”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for the rights of African Americans to have equal rights with the whites. He wanted to end the signs that separated the whites and the blacks from doing almost everything. There were signs as to where they couldn’t drink from the same water fountain, go to the same bathroom, and sit in certain places on the bus, which is what Rosa Parks rebelled against. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also was interested and helping Rosa Parks at this time. He even led a march to end this problem.
We’re also having a civil disobedience act right now in the bay area. It’s happening downtown Oakland and also in San Francisco. These people are fighting because there have been many job threats and job losses. People are camping out on the street purposely to show that they are serious about what they want to end. Police men came in ruining what they try standing up for. They Mayor of Oakland were trying to end their beliefs. The police men threw a spray to break up the crowd because everything broke out into a riot.
When I see “Civil Disobedience” I think of fighting for rights, but the law is against it. The law gets upset because people try to make a change in their community and other peoples’ lives and they don’t want to take the time out to make a change in the law because it may take time, or they’re completely against what people are fighting for. Otherwise, police men have to simply do their jobs. Maybe that’s why the police man said what he said to Rosa Parks about treating blacks the way they did. Many people try making changes in the world every day and although it takes time, most of the time it gets done. Are you willing to make a change in your society?
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ReplyDeleteCivil disobedience can refuse to obey certain laws and commands of the government. The civil obedience fought against what they thought was unfair laws. Civil disobedience is an essay by an American named David Thoreau, published in 1849.The word "civil" means relating to citizens with one another or with the state. Civil disobedience was published under the title Resistance to civil government in an anthology called "Aesthetic papers”. The form for civil disobedience was "Civil Resistance”. Disobedience means "disobedience to the state”. Civil disobedience was a strong thing to the world back then and ended people to deaths and it changed the way people looked at things back then.
ReplyDeleteA person who has shown civil disobedience was Rosa Parks because she refused to give up her seat for a white person. Back then white people got to sit in the back of the bus and the black people had to sit in the front. Rosa Parks stood for what she believed in and tried her hardest to stand up to the white people but she lost. The white people hated black people and killed and injured them for everything just because they were black. Rosa didn’t feel that was right so she had to do what she felt was right. She was a very brave women and she took a while until they took her off the bus for not listening to what the white people said.
A man that showed civil disobedience was Martin Luther King he had a dream and then he was preaching to tons of people who also agreed what he was saying because he spoke for what he believed in. Unfortunalty he got shot for marching and saying stuff that the white people didn’t like. Martin Luther King was a brave man and didn’t care what people had to say about what he felt was right.
Another man who I think showed civil disobedience was ghandi because he showed people what was right.Ghandi was not a non violent man and was very calm about things but stood for what he thought was right. He died in 1948 because he was an Indian man.Ghandi had led marches and as he did that people were becoming aware of what the world has become and they agreed with him.
Martin Luther King, Rosa Park and ghandi are all examples of showing what civil disobedience is because in all of their story’s they stand up for what they believe in and what they think is right, all of them died but the thing was that they were not scared to stand up to people even though it was going to cause them death. These are three strong individuals and got to say most of what they wanted that’s more then anything back then but they persevered and got through it and also got to leave that horrible world and be free which is known as death.
Civil disobedience is a public, non-violent and diligent law undertaken with the goal of bringing a change to laws or government policies. The people who practice civil disobedience are willing to agree to the legal consequences of their actions, as this shows their devotion to the rule of law. Civil disobedience, is loyalty to a law, it falls between legal protest, conscientious refusal, and/or revolutionary action.
ReplyDeleteIn “Civil disobedience” Ralph Waldo Emerson and his theory of transcendentalism influenced Henry David Thoreau, which was the idealistic philosophical and social movement that taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity. He criticized the government and their foolish policies because he didn't want to support salvery nor the Mexican war. He would rather spend a night in jail, then paying his taxes; thoreau felt freer than the people outside, stating that "I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. . . . I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was." His perspective of the way he was living never changed and he fought against the unjust government until he died.
Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian man who spent his life fighting for justice through "satyagraha", which means reaching truth. He led insurrections in civil disobedience, and controlled the Congress Party and fought to Unite India. He repressed many peaceful rebellions against the British such as, the "Dharasana Salt Raid". He originally was a lawyer in Britain then moved to South Africa to help the Indian community gain rights. "When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."He made a change in Africa and did it through civil disobedience, he was motivated to accomodate the laws even if it meant death!
Martin Luther King Jr, a Baptist Pastor, was an rights activist who believed that all men were created equal and should not be judged by the color of their skin. He was non violent in his approach. King organized the campaigns to address issues of economic justice; the march on Washington engaged into nonviolent civil disobedience. "A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan." Now Martin Luther King has a national holiday declared in his honor.
These notable practitioners used civil disobedience to instigate social change by notifying their government and society, showing how wholehearted they are to their opinions.
Civil disobedience is a method of protest that many leaders, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi have successfully used to achieve rights they deserve. In its most common form, it is nonviolent, and in the cases of Dr. King and Gandhi, it was used to help an outnumbered group achieve rights from oppressive leaders. Civil disobedience was put into the public eye by Henry David Thoreau, a writer during the Romanticism period.
ReplyDeleteCivil disobedience has its roots in very deep, reaching back to Native American and Ancient Greek cultures. In these cultures there were regulations in the city laws that it was OK to disagree and protest a law. Others, including St. Thomas Aquinas and John Locke practiced elements of primitive civil disobedience. However, the first to put it into motion was Henry David Thoreau.
Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, writer of the essay “Resistance to Civil Government” was the first to lay out the groundwork for civil disobedience. The essay is influenced by Thoreau’s one night in jail, a sentence given to him for not paying his taxes. His two main principles in the essay are that the authority of the government depends on how the people utilize it, and that an individual decides whether a law is justified. The first time that Thoreau lectured his ideas on civil disobedience was in Concord, Massachusetts, under the name, “On the Relation of the Individual to the State”. Thoreau fine-tuned his work and published it in 1849, under the name it is known as today.
Gandhi
Gandhi didn’t read Thoreau’s work until 1907, after he started practicing civil disobedience. During 1906 in South Africa, he was trying to get rights for Indian immigrants in the country. By 1915, he had changed his focus to that of the Indian people, starting a peaceful revolution versus the British parliament. Gandhi saw six key elements in Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”. They were, as follows, a moral basis grounded in truth, voluntary and deliberate disobedience, commitment to nonviolence, being truthful, fearless, and greedless, accepting punishment, and organized protesting. Gandhi’s teachings left a great influence on a young man fighting for his rights, also.
King Jr. and Civil Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the Civil Rights movement, had clear influence from civil disobedience and Gandhi. One of his most well-known acts was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was started by the Rosa Parks incident, in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. The boycott was a primary example of civil disobedience. King simply led his people to nonviolently boycott the Montgomery bus system every day until the unjust law was changed, which it eventually was. On March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday, 500 peaceful marchers were met by a “small army” of volunteers. Police attacked the group, and injured at least 80 of the marchers, severely wounding many. T.V. cameras caught the entire event on tape, and “Bloody Sunday” became public. King was able to lead his people past the event relatively nonviolently, which gained King respect in many circles.
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Civil disobedience is an act of disobeying the law and/or commands of an authority figure to make a political statement. Civil disobedience is usually nonviolent although some may say that violent acts can sometimes be considered as a form of civil disobedience.
ReplyDeleteThich Quang Duc was a passionate Mahayana Buhhdist monk that spent most of his life in service and teaching, heading monasteries and rebuilding temples. On June11th, 1963 the 76 year old month sat down in a full lotus position in the middle of Saigon’s intersection then he adjudicated the South Vietnamese government’s overwhelming policies and demanded for religious equality. Then, Thich Quang Duc’s fellow monks poured gasoline all over his body and he calmly set himself on fire. A lot of people may disagree about the purpose of Thich Quang Duc’s suicide; his job was an absolute turning point in the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam. Which conducted in which eventually lead to change.
Another man that showed Civil Disobedience was Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King disliked violence and led the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He organized a lot of nonviolent marches; sit ins, boycotts and blockades to protest segregation and racial injustice. Although his message was peaceful and his actions were considered to be unlawful both him and his followers we in jail multiple times due to their peaceful protests. His “I have a dream” speech had to do with peace and racial equality. His speech was one of the most powerful speeches in American history.
Another person that collaborated with Dr.King was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a Caucasian man on December 1,1955.She was tired and weak after a long day at work and just wanted to rest. However she wasn’t only physically tired. She was tired of the lack of rights that African Americans had. In book the book that she wrote she states “Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.” After being arrested, being tried, and a 381 day bus boycott the Supreme Court finally ruled that segregation is unconstitutional on public transportation. Through civil disobedience Rosa parks made tremendous gains in civil rights.
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ReplyDeleteHowever Rosa Parks wasn’t the only one who gained from civil disobedience. A man by the name of Nelson Mandela joined the African National congress also known as the ANC in 1944.He was publicly against the national parties policies. When the ANC was banned because of his opinions they saw him as a threat. He was arrested and put into jail for five years. While he was in jail he meditated and tried to figure out how to make the social situation in Africa better. He created an ANC meeting where he was elected president and in the end he accomplished in saving the ANC and establishing African civil rights.
Last but not least Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi was born in Gujarat India. In Southern Africa he worked to improve the rights of immigrant Indians. While he was there he developed his following of resistance against injustice. Just like Dr. King he helped organize hundreds of nonviolent protests, such as heading a complete boycott on all British merchandise, and a huge march to the ocean to protest salt taxed. He was also put into prison many times because of his acts against the British. He like the others was also nonviolent. He used his widespread popularity to stop fighting by fasting until the violence stopped. He would sometimes also lead group fasts to protest violence. Gandhi was an amazing person and he was also a huge supporter of nonviolence.
Each and every one of these leaders has one thing in common. All of their civil disobedience worked and laws have changed and this proves that civil disobedience is usually the most effective way of changing unfair circumstances although it works best with nonviolence. If and illegal organization is violent then it will slowly collect supporters such as the KKK. Civil disobedience is the most effective ways to change the way people think and to change the way things are done. Standing up for what you believe in and being disobedient does not mean committing an unlawful act. It can help modify the law to help suit the community. People who use civil disobedience usually break a law because they consider the law unjust, and they want to call attention to its unfairness, hoping to change it, and exchange it for a reasonably more decent law.
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ReplyDeleteCivil disobedience is an illegal act performed publicly in contravention of a law or laws of the government for the short-term purpose of bringing about a change in the law or laws and for the long-term purpose of improving society as a whole. Throughout the years people have had many protest some ending bad and some actually making a change. When one has a protest it never has to end with a fight or people getting arrested if it’s meant to be a peaceful one about something a group of people feel strongly there is no need for riots. Over the years important people like Gandhi, Thoreau, and Martin Luther King have done many of things that displayed civil disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) fought for his people who suffered oppression from the British. Gandhi fasted and prayed to demonstrate the steadfastness of will. He led India to independence by showing the entire country that determination and faith can triumph over adversity. Gandhi fought for injustice of his people. He never had any protest where violence was the answer because that wasn’t what he was fighting for he didn’t want any of his people to suffer anymore.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) he didn’t like how the government was and how the laws were unjust. So Thoreau decided to pack up and go into nature and live off of nature for a while which was important to him as a writer he liked to write in romanticism times. When Thoreau returned from nature he was put in jail for not paying his property taxes. Since Thoreau felt so strongly about the governments unjust law he had to spend a night in jail which made him realize that the people outside of jail are the ones that are basically enslaved in the government’s law.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) Fought for the rights of African American people. The most known civil disobedience Dr. King did was the Montgomery Bus Boycott during the boycott no African American rode the bus because of how Rosa Parks was treated for not giving up her seat to a white man. Also in 1963, King led a massive march on Washington DC where he delivered his now famous, I Have A Dream speech. King's tactics of active nonviolence (sit-ins, protest marches) had put civil-rights squarely on the national agenda. Through the sit-ins, protest and marches Dr. King was not about violence just wanting to change the rights of African Americans
These are three men that spoke up about the things the government did wrong that was unjust Gandhi for his peoples justice Thoreau for not wanting to be slave to the government and King for wanting all African Americans to be treated equal. If these men can stand up why can’t we fight for what we want in a nonviolence where we can get heard instead of the police and government thinking that were only there to start a riot.
Hatred can be overcome only by love, Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it, I Have A Dream.
Gabriela Martinez
ReplyDeleteCivil disobedience to go against the law/government. Or against political beliefs of a person but using non violence methods to perused the people. The very most common one in the United States is when interfering with the government, being somewhere where the opposed is not allowed or by stopping traffic. Fighting for what you believe in with a help o people around you.
One of the person who used these methods was Gandhi Thoreau when he wrote his essay on “civil disobedience”. Around the year 1845, it was a big change back then because people us to be afraid to speak up. And let their feelings against the government out. The reason that leads him to this was in that he us to live on a farm then when out and didn’t pay taxes for the property in a long time. So when he got back he got put in jail. And that is when he realizes that the government is way to corrupt and there needs to be some change!
Way after him during the time of segregation Martin Luther king Jr. Uses the same method as Thoreau. Martin Luther King Jr. takes his ideas and converts him to his own perspective of that time.Beacuse in that time white and colored where separated of everything. From schools for kinds, water fountains, hoping centers everything! That wasn’t right so with him and the help of the community toke a lot of years but they accomplished what they wanted. One of his most famous speeches is “I have a dream”. He talks about how he has a dream that one day all his children/people will come together and put skin color aside, that’s an example of civil disobedience because he went against the government in a non violent methods to get what he wanted.
Another very famous person that changed history was Rosa Parks. She as well worked with Dr. King during the time of the movement. But the method she used was that she was coming home from work then she had to give up her seat to a white. But she refused she was tired of the blacks always having to do everything for white people, they had to be even. After that she got put in jail. For a while but she never fought back with violence only with words against the government. After she got out boycott the busses for a long time with her community and they did it as well they defeated the cause.
Without civil disobedience the world wouldn’t be how it is today. Everyone can speak freely for what they believe in, in a way where everyone cans Seattle with peace if they like. But without these people our society would be a mess. Not everyone is alike and that’s what bring us together we all contribute to ideas. Honestly I think civil disobedience is the most effective to who you were you want to get to, to make a change and that you’re willing to give time. Not someone ignorant that resorts to killings of innocent people.
Ralph Cola
ReplyDeleteCivil Disobedience is a way where a person or group has a say about what they think can make the society they live in a much more better and safer place to be, by doing an illegal act. They disobey the law, to make a political statement. Participants expect to be arrested, and are frequently charged with crimes such as trespass. More people commit violent civil disobedience be it take less effort, and patience, while non violence takes patience, because of a very stubborn government Three important people that used non-violent civil disobedience to stand up for what they believe is right are Rosa Parks, Henry David Thoreau, and Mohandas Gandhi. Rosa Parks On December 1, 1955 got arrested on a Montgomery Bus after she went home from her job as a seamstress, for not giving up her seat to a white male which just came in the bus. When Rosa came into the bus it was empty but then it got full soon. Rosa Park sparked a new era of American quest for freedom and equality. Through non-violence civil disobedience Rosa Parks got her voice to be heard by the nation that freedom and equality is a must, and the government is not right for thinking segregation is making the society much more better. Henry David Thoreau was the writer of “Resistance to Civil Government.” Thoreau got arrested for not paying his taxes. He was gone for about a year to live in nature, and escape the hard life of the urban society. Once he came back to his home, he got arrested, his refusal to pay for the government taxes, shows civil disobedience against the injustice of the government. Thoreau believes the only time the government cares for the people is when they collect the peoples money, other than that it seems like they are not doing there jobs of properly governing the people, they are not making the proper choices to make sure everyone’s rights are protected, and finally they are not making the society a much better place for everyone. Mohandas Gandhi led India to independence and also inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He organized peasants, farmers, and urban laborers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Gandhi famously led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 Dandi Salt March. Gandhi wanted the British to leave India and allow it to be independent, but he was imprisoned for this act. Gandhi protested the British government by performing a series of civil disobedience acts. After the World War two India manage to gain there independence from Britain, and Gandhi called off the struggle, and around 100,000 political prisoners were released. These three important people that used non-violent civil disobedience shows that the government is not always right, and is not always fair to the people they are governing. Through non-violent Civil Disobedience people can finally say what they have in there mind, and stand up for themselves, instead of letting an unfair government system tell them what they should do and what they should not be doing.
Civil disobedience: is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. The world has many examples of people who have used civil disobedience in order to change the world to make it a better place; these people have helped shape the world into what it is today. Civil disobedience can be as small as a simple sit in, or can be as big as an organized march through the street with police attempting to stop you with aggressive tactics. But the number one rule in civil disobedience is to not retaliate in any way, shape or form because one you do that you’re just as good as the people that you are protesting against. A powerful leader in a civil disobedience movement was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement was to lead India to independence from the tyrannical unjust British. Gandhi started the non- cooperation movement, the movement was all about Indians not cooperating with the British but not using any form of violence against the British in the process. Gandhi heavily influenced his people with his powerful speeches and without him being a powerful face in this revolution the people in India today still may not have their independence from the British. Another powerful leader that has used civil disobedience to help unfairness was Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was motivated in his civil disobedience act by his hatred of slavery and the Mexican- American war. Thoreau argued that the government that governs least is a good government; I think he said this because if the citizens are just in their actions then there is no needs to have a government govern anything because the citizens are handling their responsibilities. Thoreau was such a powerful activist that he influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King jr. in their acts of civil disobedience. Thoreau noticed that most governments are more harmful against their people than helpful. In a way you can view Thoreau as an anarchist because of his ideas toward the government, but if he was an anarchist he would be a just one because if the government was not corrupt systematic and a dictatorship then he would have nothing against it. Another powerful activist in civil disobedience was Martin Luther King jr. King was a leader in the American civil rights movements, which was all about getting all Americans no matter, race or genders the same rights as one another. King helped organize the 385 day boycott from the buss systems which urged all blacks not to ride buss until they received fair treatment and could sit anywhere without having to get up for a white man. He also gave a powerful “I Have a Dream” speech in which he talked about having equality for not just blacks but all races in American. King was such a powerful leader that he was assassinated while spreading his words of fair treatment around America. Civil disobedience is a powerful weapon against any government that is being unjust because if carried out long enough and with enough sacrifices the government will always have to give in or it will crumble.
ReplyDeleteCivil disobedience is an illegal act performed publicly in contravention of a law. This might be political act because of its principles of the political justice. Civil is an act that is in a good manner, not revolting or no criminal in its methods. Civil disobedience can be acted in big crowds of people or by one single individual. Theirs is many ways that civil disobedience can be performed such as boycotts, strikes, marches, mass meetings of people, and many more. The person who all started the famous theory civil disobedience was Henry David Thoreau a writer that made civil disobedience appear in the year 1866 four years after his death. Thoreau had only two rules about civil disobedience the first one is the authority of the government depends on the constant government. The second one is that is superior to the laws enacted by the government and individual has the right to judge whether a given law reflects of flouts justice. Thoreau influenced the most recognized people which were Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. who used civil disobedience against the people they want to fight with but with words not actions. Gandhi civil disobedience was first brought in 1906 in South Africa were he made it to his campaign for the defense of civil rights against Indian immigrants that were discriminated. He made civil disobedience his first moral force behind his leadership of the Indian nationalist movement to fight for was right without violence. Another person who used civil disobedience in his power was the famous Martin Luther King Jr. for the civil rights of the African Americans in the United States of America . One of the most read letters of the civil disobedience time was “Letter from Birmingham jail” were he addressed to his fellow African American to tell them what the nonviolent action to get rid of segregationist laws in America. I think civil disobedience is a great way for any individual or groups of people to express themselves without getting into problems with the law , but in some cases they did back then where they got put into jail for what they thought was right thing to do but others did not. Civil disobedience is used because its addressing what people think and what should be changed but in order to do that they have the rights to say anything that can prove a point without violence only words.
ReplyDeleteThe definition of civil disobedience could be an illegal act performed publicly in contravention of a law or laws of the government for the short-term purpose of bringing about a change in the law or laws and for the long-term purpose of improving society as a whole. While others see civil disobedience as something that shouldn’t be practiced since all laws are made to protect us, but who is to say what will keep our country safe and peaceful.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of civil disobedience has developed over a long period of time. The concepts are drawn from different periods of history and also different cultures who have contributed to its evolution. The idea that there is a law that transcends the laws of the state is found in Socrates. Yet in the middle Ages, St. Thomas Aquinas defended the natural-law view that unjust laws did not bind the citizen in conscience. While John Locke taught that the government derived its authority from the people, that one of the purposes of the government was the protection of the natural rights of the people, and that the people had the right to alter the government should it be unsuccessful to discharge its primary duties. Gandhi inspired by men like the ones previously mentioned helped set his country free from foreign power.
Mahatma Gandhi widened the view of civil disobedience and internationalized its practice. Gandhi’s civil disobedience acts started in 1906 in South Africa. His campaign was for the defense of the civil rights of the Indian immigrants who forced to work for low wages and were practically enslaved. After returning to India in 1915, he made civil disobedience the main moral force behind his leadership of the Indian nationalist movement.
Gandhi called his practice "satyagraha," a Gujarati word meaning "firmness in adhering to truth." Satyagraha introduced six essentials into the theory and practice of civil disobedience. First, its moral basis was grounded in truth, a basis much deeper than that provided by the theory of consent. To be binding, laws had to be truthful. All untruthful laws had to be opposed, though politely; that is, by truthful means. Second, civil disobedience assumed the obligation to obey the government: only those had the right to practice civil disobedience who knew "how to offer voluntary and deliberate obedience" to the laws of the state. Third, commitment to nonviolence was a vital component of civil disobedience. Fourth, the practice of civil disobedience entailed a minimum degree of moral fitness, to be gained by the exercise of such virtues as truthfulness, nonviolence, temperance, courage, fearlessness, and freedom from greed. Fifth, a practitioner of civil disobedience had to accept the punishment resulting to the disobedience voluntarily, and without complaint. Finally, engagement in civil disobedience had to be complemented by engagement in organized social work.
Gandhi has changed and influenced people around the world through his peaceful actions in India and Africa. This shows that civil disobedience can peacefully and effectively change things in the government if applied correctly. Civil disobedience fights the injustices in the government systems.
Civil Disobedience is a long history as a form of protest and resistance. Standing up for what you believe in and fighting for your rights. It's a method to force change by drawing attention to a problem and influencing public opinion. It's generally understood to be nonviolent The purpose of civil disobedience is to convey a political message.
ReplyDeleteThe poem “Resistance to Civil Government” by Henry David Thoreau was a great example of Civil Disobedience. Thoreau was a man who was sent in jail for not paying his taxes. The first time that Thoreau lectured his ideas on civil disobedience was in Concord, Massachusetts, under the name, “On the Relation of the Individual to the State”.
Martin Luther King also used Civil Disobedience. He believed that all people should be treated equal. He fought for what he believed in. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin Luther King expanded American values to include the vision of a color blind society, and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. He was then assassinated in April 4, 1968, in Memphis.
Mohandis Ghandi was an Indian leader began a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Gandhi protested the British government by performing a series of civil disobedience acts. After the World War two India manage to gain there independence from Britain, and Gandhi called off the struggle, and around 100,000 political prisoners were released. He got arrested. In January 1931, Gandhi was released from prison. Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist less than six months later.
Civil Disobedience was used by several people. They did it for what they thought was right. Civil disobedience is also used till this day. Civil disobedience is used because its addressing what people think and what should be changed but in order to do that they have the rights to say anything that can prove a point without violence only words.
Civil disobedience is when the people protest nonviolently and use passive resistance by breaking the law. It is all about changing the view of the government by standing up for what you believe in. It has always been like that, because if you do not then who will? The government sees us as products that they can use for their own gain. They don't care and the only reason there is civil disobedience is because of them. All American fingers are pointing at them and only them. The laws and mandates we are told to do are somewhat redundant sometimes. The first amendment "Freedom of Speech" is just something written on the Bill of Rights that means nothing. We try to protest but rampages start. People are put in jail and for what reason?
ReplyDeleteThoreau, an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and tax resister, got put in jail because he wouldn't pay taxes. The government has an unfortunate hunger and thirst for grabbing the money from the hard working people and for what? Does anyone have any idea what they use it for? Finding stupid life on other planets instead of worrying about the one they are living on right now. They are busy starting wars and aren't doing such a good job of ending it. Thoreau's view of the government is that it rarely proves itself needed. He thinks that people should not follow a law that is unjust. He thinks that A person is not obligated to devote his life to eliminating evils from the world, but he is obligated not to participate in such evils.
Thoreau influenced many public figures such as Ghandi, John Muir, Dr. King and so many more. Ghandi was against taxes, violence, and discrimination. He practiced civil disobedience by using the hunger strike method. He also led many protests throughout India letting the people who practiced violence know of the unjust discrimination. He used non-violence and piece as a weapon. Soldiers would hate him and find excuses to put him in jail but he'd say he did nothing wrong, and always defending himself. He was just another human. But of course this never changed, and discrimination still exists till today.
John Muir believed in civil disobedience and also admitted he was influenced by Thoreau. Muir valued nature for its spiritual and transcendental qualities. He co-founded the Sierra Club which helped establish a number of national parks after he died, and today has over 1.3 million members. His eloquent words changed the way Americans saw their mountains, forests, seashores, and deserts. He was against violence, and the violence towards nature. He thought money should not be made by destroying Yosemite.
Dr. King was another person who was influenced by Thoreau and practiced civil disobedience. He wanted and did end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience. He supported Rosa Parks because of her stand up against racism when she refused to give up her bus seat. His influence stayed and showed that violence and discrimination was never the way to solve things. He changed that by not using violence and all these people that used civil disobedience proved it to be effective.
Janae Bannerman
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wikipedia Civil Disobedience is the active, declared rejection to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. In other words is an act of disobeying the law or commands of an authority figure to make a political statement. According to Ronald Dworkin, who was an American philosopher and scholar of constitutional law, there are three different forms of civil disobedience which are Integrity-based; civil disobedience occurs when a citizen disobeys a law he feels is immoral, Justice-based; civil disobedience occurs when a citizen disobeys laws in order to lay claim to some right denied to him, and Policy-based; civil disobedience occurs when a person breaks the law in order to change a policy (s)he believes is dangerously wrong.
Civil Disobedience is also an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In this essay Thoreau argues that individuals should not authorizes governments to overrule or waste their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such agreement to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.
One of the many notable practitioners, who have used it to instigate social change, is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born 1869 and died in 1948. Gandhi was the “pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement” says Wikipedia. “He was a figure known worldwide for advocating non-violent civil disobedience.” His philosophies during the Indian independence movement were “to express no anger, never retaliate, submit to the opponent's orders and assaults, submit to arrest by the authorities, surrender personal property when confiscated by the authorities but refuse to surrender property held in trust, refrain from swearing and insults, refrain from saluting the Union flag, and protect officials from insults and assaults even at the risk of the resister's own life.”
Nelson Mandela is another example of a notable practitioner. Wikipedia says “He was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island.” He was released from prison in 1990 and served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Martin Luther King Jr. was also a practitioner of civil disobedience. He was a Baptist minister, and became a civil rights activist early in his career. King used nonviolent approach by using peace marches, protest and campaigns such as the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1963 march on Washington, and 1968 poor people campaign. The 1955 Montgomery Bus boycott started because of Rosa Parks, an African American woman who wouldn’t lift her tired body to get out of her bus seat to let a white woman sit down. In the middle of the bus boycott King realized that nonviolence was the best way to protest. Civil Disobedience was used in history for influencing movements led by these great activists. Without these philosophers some laws that are made now may not have been made if they hadn’t broken the law first.
Gianna Canamar
ReplyDeleteCivil disobedience is the refusal to obey the laws, demands, and commands of a government. Civil disobedience is mostly a nonviolent resistance. It is use to change laws or an entire government that are unjust to people. It has been use in history by people like Henry David Thoreau Mahatma Gandhi martin Luther king jr and Rosa parks there are three types of civil disobedience there is integrity based, disobeying a law that is immoral, justice based, disobeying a law that denies a person a right that is given and policy based, breaking a law that the person believes is wrong.
Thoreau essay’s resistance to civil disobedience is founding stone of civil disobedience the ideas in his essay where what inspire Gandhi and Martin Luther King to do what they did.
In India during the 1910 to the 1940 Handy led the Indian independence movement using the idea of civil disobedience against the British raj that control India he preach to his follow citizen to use a nonviolent approach to gaining independence by non violent protest, boycott on British goods, he outline several rules for civil resisters or satyagrahi they were not to express anger, never retaliate, submit to the opponents orders and assaults, submit to arrest and surrender personal property when confiscated by authorities.
During the American civil rights movement during the 1950 to 1960 both martin Luther king jr and Rosa parks follow the idea of civil disobedience to end segregation in the U.S Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister that led the Montgomery bus boycott and he also led the march to Washington where he deliver his I have a dream speech. Martin Luther King through nonviolence resistance made it possible to end segregation with the civil rights act. Also very involve and the reason for the Montgomery bus boycott was Rosa parks whose refusal to give up her seat for a white man led to her arrest that led to African Americans boycotting.
There actions have made them iconic figure for civil disobedience,
Some notable practitioners of civil disobedience include Henry Thoreau, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi. They are known for their non violent ways of social change in the unjust. The works of these practitioners have shaped today’s society.
ReplyDeleteThe influence of Thoreau was awakening the title of civil disobedience to the citizens. Thoreau’s book civil disobedience has a lot of significance. One for example is that the power of the government should be based off of the people that they are governing. Today we still apply this, for example when people vote for any government office. Voting is filters out the unpopular and the most popular which ultimately satisfy what the people governed want. Another significance of Thoreau was creating an idea that people can speak out against the unjust. An individual capable of protecting himself from tyranny reflects power to the people. In Thoreau’s situation he thought it was unfair that he was forced to pay a tax to support the Mexican American war and slavery which he was opposed to. The consequence of this was a night in jail where he wrote civil disobedience. Economic civil disobedience demonstrated by Thoreau had influenced his time and has even influenced later social equality so much that Thoreau’s movements that have shaped today’s society.
The civil rights movement over racial equality is an example of non violent civil disobedience. Rosa parks and Martin Luther King Jr are examples of people that demonstrated the power of civil disobedience’s non violence and successfully changed the society in the 50s and society today. Rosa parks act of refusing her seat also started the boycott of riding the Alabama bus which exemplifies civil disobedience. Although she knew the consequences which were jail, fines and even threats or death, she still acted against the government. For the followers that contributed by boycotting the busses their act of civil disobedience also contributed to the civil rights movements. By publically showing what she had done and how she had stepped up and kindled the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr stressed the meaning of non violence in acting against segregation. He showed this through speeches and with large crowds. He needed people to accept beating and the consequences to make the government fell guilty and shame for beating and killings. He was successful in making this change. This is an example of Thoreau’s civil disobedience that people can make change by speaking out against what is wrong.
The impact of Gandhi using civil disobedience has shaped today’s society. His ideas were improving the Indian society by writing about caste violence, caste segregation and women equality. He did this by identifying which laws were truthful and which were untruthful, and by taking part in civil disobedience one must accept the consequences and also making nonviolence inherent. Gandhi’s civil disobedience also said to disobey the state but not to turn to revolution; the person that practices it does it with virtues and in order for change to occur there needs to be organized social work
Civil disobedience is refusing to do something that is legal and doing something illegal and try changing it by your illegal action. Civil disobedience was done by Thoreau because he refused to pay taxes on a house that he had not lived in for a while. So he didn’t pay the taxes for six years , a lot of people didn’t agree with the government but still paid taxes , there act showed that they supported it .and he was sent to jail and that’s where he wrote his “Civil Disobedience” essay. Thoreau was release from jail because someone paid his tax. In my opinion I don’t think they should of paid the tax because whoever paid it was agreeing with the government and Thoreau wasn’t so he was willing to pay the price of not paying the taxes.
ReplyDeleteShortly after Thoreau was Gandhi! Gandhi fought for the Indians immigrants. “His idea of civil disobedience drew from a wide variety of intellectual sources. Plato's Apology of Socrates was one of them. In 1908 he published a paraphrase of it under the title The Story of a Soldier of Truth.”Gandhi called practice "satyagraha," a Gujarati word meaning "firmness in adhering to truth." Gandhi protected the Indians from the British because of the Indian nationalist movement. He was called father in his country. He fought for the Indian rights! He was sent to jail many times and Gandhi was influenced by Thoreau and Hinduism,
Another person was martin Luther king jr. he fought for the civil right in untied state, he was influenced by Thoreau and Gandhi movement. King started the civil right movement after this day that Rosa parks was tired form work and didn’t give a white man her seat , and was sent to jail for not giving a white man her seat. So he started a protest against “bus segregation.” King was arrested and they stetted his house on fire! After the “Montgomery Bus Boycott, King wrote Stride Toward Freedom (1958)”.king went around the U.S inspiring people to be involved the “civil right movement.”” The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.”
All of these people that have used civil disobedience got it from Thoreau they all fought for something good the most effective one was martin Luther king’s jr, because if it wasn’t for him I think the world would still be the same, or even more worst. They all did acts that were non violence which was a good thing because with violence it would have been even worse. In my opinion I think it’s the best way to show the government or an authority that you don’t agree with something when you don’t do what has been asked to do. And when you try to enforce to them your thought and how things should be done.
Civil Disobedience is when someone doesn't obey a law or orders from the government. This could also be classified as a non violent way not to solve something but to settle something in a more non violent matter. Basically a way of protesting with out causing a big fight but could be a big scene with people protesting about something that isn't right and that they have all the right to. There has been so many numerous cases of this where people protest in a somewhat more "peaceful way" but overall it's still causing a scene but still if the issue is avoiding there rights then they are in the right not the wrong. A good example i can think of is the short story we just read in class of Thoreau who really shows a key great example of civil disobedience and what it represents and brings out the true meaning of standing up for what you believe for. Standing up for your rights is a big role in history to today and that is something someone can't take away from you something that most of us keep close to us our equality and rights. Sometimes this is doing something bigger making a change that can actually change history and present day as we know it to stand up have a voice don't be scared or put down by higher power you have something to say say it. If you have a good supported reason to protest non violently go for it. This is also a method often used to solve something with out a issue just because you are in a sometimes massive group of people doesn't mean your gonna fight and be violent fix what there complaining about and then there will be no need for this. Clearley this is a nice effective way of solving a much bigger issue then something small and the way it's effective just shows everyone violence is not the issue and using the and actually applying Civil Disobedience just makes everything that much easier to solve or even deal with. If your ever put inside a situation that you don't agree with don't get violent protest nicely or use civil disobedience and there shall be no need for any violence. The reason this has lasted so long came such a long way is that this is such a great way of solving things Civil Disobedience is the way to go and thing to use that is Civil Disobedience
ReplyDeleteSome people think civil disobedience is done by “crazy”, selfish individuals who always want things done their way. But in my perspective, those “crazy” people are just standing up for what is right. Like we all know, we are all ruled and organized by one single government in America. It’s typical that we might not all want to obey these rules because of our different lifestyles and personalities, but most of us do nothing about it. There are those rules that we really don’t agree with, that if someone stands up for it, may make a change. For example, Henry David Thoreau. He didn’t believe in paying taxes because it went to unnecessary things. Plus, they were taxing the lower class, and not the wealthy, which actually had the money to pay tax. Thoreau was put in jail for this kind of civil disobedience. Sometimes this sort of disobedience can lead to revolutions, or rebellions.
ReplyDeleteThe philosophy behind civil disobedience goes back to classical and biblical sources. Thoreau claims that the individual, who grants the state its power in the first place, must follow the rules of conscience in opposing unjust laws. Inspired by Ghandi’s actions to gain Indian rights in South Africa, he decided to stand up for what he thought was right. There are many others that indulge in civil disobedience, for example, suffragists, feminists, and supporters of the disabled.
In the United States, the most outstanding practitioner of civil disobedience was the civil-rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. During the 1950s and 60s he gained fame by leading many marches, and boycotts. He was also jailed several times. Martin Luther King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, showing up wherever there was injustice, protest, and action. During this time, he wrote five books and a whole lot of articles. In these years, he led a huge protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, supporting what he called a “coalition of conscience”. He then directed the peaceful march in Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his famous speech of all time, "l Have a Dream”.
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Civil disobedience is a way people did to not obey a law that they not like of a government or a higher power. Usually it is a peaceful way for people to protest against the government of the laws that the citizens do not like. Civil disobedience is one of the many ways people have rebelled against what they deem to be unfair laws. When the government makes a law and the people does not like it, they peacefully protest against the government or a higher power than them. But usually the people who do civil disobedience are non-violence people. They do not believe in violence so they cooperate with what the police will do to them, but they do not fight against anybody.
ReplyDeletePeople usually do this type of protest because it is a more peaceful way to protest. Many people do it this way to show the government that they are willing to do anything that is possible for them to get rid of that law that they do not like. It is usually an act against what the government tells you to do. Why does the government make law that they know that the people will not like it? They already know people will fight against them, so why do it still?
Many of the people that have done civil disobedience are Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. They both believed in non-violence type of protesting. They both have read the essay that Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1848. In Thoreau’s essay he explained his reasons for having refused to pay taxes as an act of protect against slavery and against the Mexican-American war. As for Martin Luther King Jr., he protested against segregation in American. He wanted blacks and whites to be integrated and not to be segregated. He did many peaceful marches and even went to jail. He did his famous speech “I Have a Dream” and millions of people attended it. As for Gandhi, he protested against the British people to leave India and to let them be free. He too went to jail just for his people to be free.
The person that usually does the protesting against the government or a higher power is people that most people respect. It is usually people that are most likely for people not to believe them at first but then after awhile they will believe them and follow them.
To me civil disobedience is alright because people are just trying to tell the government or higher power that they do not like what they do to them. It is just a way for them to peacefully disagree with them. It is either doing peaceful protests or having a war with your own people just because of one stupid law that is senseless. Civil disobedience is a non-violence way to disagree with the government or a higher power than the people. If the government or higher power people does not want people to fight against them, then they should always do what the people want.
Civil disobedience is where people have their own beliefs on the laws that the government has and what has it says. The main people that had disobedience were Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., these men fight for their beliefs on a better utopian world.
ReplyDeleteHenry David Thoreau was thrown in jail just because he didn’t pay for his house when he was in the forest for six years and that wasn’t fair for them to place him under arrest for not paying the house. While he was in jail he said a famous quote which was can we be humans first, then objects what he is trying to say is that as humans being they have the right to do anything if they put their mind into it.
Gandhi he had fought for his people in South Africa when the Britain government took over the Salt Factory. Gandhi was sick and tired of seeing his people not having their jobs and so he thought not use violence and so they had a nonviolence strike on the factory. The mob was in rows and the first row went first, they walked in front of the guards and the guards started beating the people the second row went up and it happen the same thing and so come the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and so forth. The guards were tired of seeing these people and beating them and they gave up and left and so Gandhi was savior to all of his people and one of his quotes motivated them to do this strike and the quote was It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence, which means that there will be times to use violence, but don’t use violence to be a solution to every problem that a person may have.
Martin Luther King Jr. he has fought for equal rights for all African American citizens he had a dream where little white boys and little black boys would join together to be friends. He had a plan to drive to Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voter. He did this so that his people also have a the opportunity to vote and everyone’s vote counts and have a voice to speak the truth about slavery and about how it wasn’t fair for them to sit in the back in the bus and they couldn’t drink from a different water fountain. King was sick and tired of seeing his people suffer and not having the same rights as the whites and he made a boycott on the buses with the help of Rosa Parks. They had a great friendship together and they worked with each other ever since she was in jail for sitting in the front of the bus when the bus driver had told her that she had to sit in the back, but Rosa was too tired to move and she sat on the front. From this point King had helped her get her justice, but not only hers but to his people.
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ReplyDeleteCivil Disobedience is the technique to say what you believe in or your own opinion. Basically you are trying to break the governments law and rebel against it. It is usually started just by one man, it just takes one man to start a rebellion. But these rebellions aren't just created to make the government go crazy, they are made to justify the human rights! One of the most important Civil Disobedience impacts most known today are from Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Mahatma Gandhi. They might have all fought for something different, but the y all fought for their rights.
ReplyDeleteHenry David Thoreau believed that individuals should not permit the government to overrule or take advantage of their consciences. He claimed that governments are more harmful than helpful, therefore they cannot be justified. The idea Thoreau came up with was moving out to the wilderness; just him by himself, not paying anything, not depending on any one, not dealing with government's issues. The day he returns home, he was immediately put to jail: Thoreau had not been living in his house, but he still had to pay rent and taxes. He tried to prove a point, but he was just in jail just for one night. Thoreau claimed that no one outside his jail cell is more free than he is inside. It did not bother him that he was in jail, in matter of fact, he loved being there because he did not have to pay for tax or rent. He tried to go against the government but sadly his aunt paid his bills.
Mahatma Gandhi was once a lawyer, defending human rights in South Africa. In South Africa, Gandhi faced the discrimination directed at Indians. Once in a train he was thrown out because he refused to move from first - class to third - class coach, while holding a first- class ticket. There so many more events that made Gandhi to awaken to the social injustice in the world. Gandhi asked for people to follow his plans, to do what he says and to follow the consequences that followed. Eventually the government was not going to have enough space to arrest so many prisoners. The smart part of his plans was that he did involve his followers with violence, even though they might have been imprisoned for that reason. As the government offended the Indians, Gandhi also offended the government with words.
As well as Gandhi, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., dealt with racism. Rosa and Martin were both tired of being judged and humiliated, so they both decided to create a movement. They broke laws and disrespected the white Americans, but they did it for equal treatment. They stood up for our rights no matter the consequences. They dealt with the cruelty of the government. They showed their feelings with boycotts, protests and strikes. Martin Luther King did not just only focused only on the rights of the African Americans, he also helped all the races!
Just one person can change humanity, but it comes with help of the followers.