I say people you say power! People! Power! People! Power! People! Power! All over the world there is ongoing civil disobedience, protests, and riots. Since the very beginning have been fighting for rights and freedom. The works of Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr, and Mohandas Gandhi teach that civil disobedience is standing up to Unjust laws, Believing everyone is equal and doing what it takes to get equality, and not letting the government make the people suffer.
In "The declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson writes of Believing all men are equal and doing whatever it takes to get equality. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equally, that they are all endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." It should be obvious that all men and women are created equally and given rights by God that can't be taken or denied. People in this world fight for reasons unknown. They fight for rights that they should already have. "That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, its is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government." When the government is not doing what it should be doing people have the right to change
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Gandhi and his followers always stood up to the government and never obeyed them but did disobey them. When Gandhi uses the word disobey, he wants everyone to not follow the government's ways no matter what so that therecan be a change. "One way is to smash the head of the man who perpetrates injustice and to get your own head smashed in the process." Mohandas made it clear to the government that he and his people would do whatever it takes to make a change. Gandhi would never bow down to any sort of outrageous law. He would rather spend his life in prison than living where he suffers. Mohandas Gandhi talked the talk but also walked the
Throughout history, violent reformation movements were traditionally used, but non-violence has been proven just as effective. Gandhi was one of the first to use peaceful resistance and civil disobedience to successfully change India. Civil Disobedience is the active refusal to obey laws set by the government with Nonviolent resistance and respectful disagreement. He used this concept to fight off not only the colonial rule but also racial discrimination and social divisions such as the untouchables in society. Mohandas Gandhi was born in India in 1869. At the age of 19 he went to London to study Law and he was impressed by English laws.His ambition to gain India's independence of all class, wealth, and educational distinction was successful.
He respected the law and didn't want to disrespect it. He was put in jail, yet still changed lives. So the question is, what made Gandhi's nonviolence work? There once was a law that the British passed called the salt tax. It stated that Indians were not allowed to manufacture or collect their own salt.
In Gandhi’s On Civil Disobedience speech he said, “ We made it clear to the government that we would never bow to the outrageous laws.” He fought for Indians in South Africa for seven years and helped India gain their independence from the British in 1947. If it was not for Gandhi who knows if India would have gain their independence. Although India did suffer from internal turmoil as religious factions fought for power, circumstances could have been much worse for people who lived in India if Gandhi did not stand up for what he believed in and did what he
“If you make laws to keep us suppressed in a wrongful manner and without taking us into confidence, these laws will merely adorn the statue books. We will never obey them”(1). Mohandas Gandhi expressed this in his writing “On Nonviolent Resistance”. “Civil disobedience” is when people use their voice by protesting, non-violently, to stick up against unjust laws and unjust movements. The truths and values are proven and brought to attention in the writings of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and Henry David Thoreau. Civil disobedience can be the solution to unjust laws and violence around the world.
The way our government is set up allows citizens to push back against a government they feel is wrong. Citizens of the United States have the right of free speech, that’s why
Gandhi and King were two inspirational men who tried their hardest to allow others to not have their freedom and justice ripped from them. There was a lot of stuff that they tried to do which cause bad stuff to happen to them for example King had gone to jail and Gandhi also. As you can see Gandhi and King weren’t justified in breaking the laws but they were trying to stop others from getting too much power to break the laws themselves.
Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist and writer who would lead the independence movement of India to free the country of British rule (“Mahatma Gandhi,” 2017). He would prove that a single person could change the course of history and take on the entire British Empire. Gandhi’s principles of nonviolence and civil disobedience are attributed to his success in gaining independence for India. The act of passive resistance allowed Gandhi to generate more support for his movement for independence while making it difficult for the British to find reasons to arrest them. He argued that although violence could be more effective than peaceful
Activist Mohandas K. Gandhi in his speech, On Civil Disobedience, projects his view on passive resistance against the arbitrary laws of India. Gandhi's purpose is to deliver a radical notion that will inspire the dissidents of India and provoke the government officials. He adopts a seditious tone in order to invoke political movement within the factions of India. Gandhi emphasizes his speech by stating the ways of war without civil disobedience.
Have you ever heard of civil disobedience? It is a way of peaceful protest that has been used successfully in the past and in the present. Walkouts, boycotts, and marches are all forms of civil disobedience that have been used and are currently being used. During past four years, there have been women's rights marches, pro-choice marches, and kneeling during the national anthem. These are people that are actively trying to create a fair society themselves and for the people around them. As the real world awaits, civil disobedience is a way to live in a fair society, preserve independence, and refine your moral compass.
Civil disobedience is an illegal, public and also a form of opposition to against the unfair rule and it is one of the way for people to disagreemnet the government and minority disagreement with a majority. The citizens have the freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. The people have the right to do that but they must try to be peacerful and non-violence way to change the society. The typical example is nationalist movements of Gandhi using non-violence civil disobedience to protest against the British colonial rule in India (Gandhi,2001). The other typical example is Martin Luther King Jr. who was using civil disobedience to protest against the racial discrimination in the US. (King, 1987) The other philosophers such as John Rawls used the justice theory to morally justify civil disobedience behaviour in some specific circumstances.
Gandhi was and continues to be a well respected man in the world of non-violent protests and the non violent movement in India. Like Martin Luther king Jr., he faced discrimination in his country but responded only with peaceful protests.
In such a time of injustice, the founding fathers created the Bill of Rights, to protect against the tyranny of the government. Civil disobedience works in the same
Gandhi responded to challenge by peacefully protesting and not responding to hostility.He shows this by only peacefully protesting and if there was ever any conflict he would fast or go on a hunger strike.
Mohandas Gandhi was the first recorded individual to adopt a non-violent method based form for change. His primary objective was for people of all ethnicities and social class to live freely amongst each other, even those inflicted upon by India’s ancient caste system.
Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian activist who led peaceful protests such as the salt march and fasting. When Great