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As Martin Luther King Jr. once said: "non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good" (Herbert, 2012). According to Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi, one should prioritize their principles over the laws which are created by the majority. Laws are not formed based on the best point of view; rather, they are created by the majority who simply has the most power. In today's society, the fast food industry workers in the United States are confronted with low wages and inhumane working conditions. Resistance, nonviolence, and disobedience are justifiable as they attempt to create social change. Although there may be limitations, civil disobedience offers these workers the means to resist power and address their everyday struggles.
By participating in acts of civil disobedience, one deliberately refuses to follow the laws as a peaceful form of protest. These laws are resisted by people as they believe that their basic human rights are being violated. Civil disobedience demands a certain form of moral and tactical work. Moral work calls for one to make a distinction between what is considered just and unjust. It requires one to fully commit to their ethics and beliefs and accept the consequences that follow without objection. According to Gandhi's practice of "satyagraha," non-violence is essential: "'violent noncooperation only multiplies evil, and that as evil can only be sustained by violence, withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence'" (Eknath, 62). Civil disobedience approaches the idea of social change without creating destruction or violating another's rights. Tactical work plans to achieve a specific end. Collectively refusing all...

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...d. The non-violent approach of resisting power can go on for years before change is actually accomplished. The first protests regarding fast food industries began in 2012, and two years later workers are still fighting to be heard.
Civil disobedience offers fast food restaurant employees the means to peacefully resist power and address the minimum wage struggle that they are facing. Through tactical work, they can attempt to create social change for workers across the United States. As Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi all once did, people should put their basic rights first and follow the rules of the majority second. Fast food workers are unable to live off or provide for their families with the wages that they currently earn. By resisting the laws of minimum wage they can raise awareness and create a movement that calls for change.

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