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Identify an example in this country of civil disobedience that you feel was justified and explain why? Civil disobedience means, a group's disapproval to abide by the law because they place confidence that the law is corrupt. Civil disobedience is a refusal to obey unjust laws, or in other words, defying the law because you don’t agree with it. Civil disobedience is usually displayed in a peaceful way. Although, if a person commits civil disobedience they should be prepared to face the aftermath of their actions, such as jail (Audio English, 2013).
An example of civil disobedience would have to be the famous story of Rosa Parks in which she was arrested for Civil Disobedience on December 1, 1955. Rosa Parks stood up for what she had faith in. At about night fall of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, being an African women, was burned out after an extensive day of working, predetermined to take a seat at the front of the bus for her ride home. She refused to give up her seat to a white commuter; she was then taken into custody for overstepping an Alabama law that required black people to give up their seats to white people when the bus was full. Blacks also had to sit at the back of the bus according to Alabama law. Rosa Parks arrest was successful by a one-day bus boycott on her court date. The NAACP knew it needed to carry forward with their action, to prosperously challenge segregated public transportation. The new pastor was Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in which he became the commander of the boycott. He demanded there be nonviolent actions to accomplish the objective of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted, "We must use the weapon of love.” Rosa Parks being arrested flared a 381-d...

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...ble (Thoreau, 2013). This went too far because he wanted to hold the power in a decision in which he couldn’t change. He wanted to tell the government that he had rights as a citizen even if it came to a war that he didn’t support. His statement on the government making the wrong decisions, it’s probably true that they do, but as citizens we must have trust in what our government does for this nation, even if it’s not the right decision.

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America’s Story (2013). Rosa Parks was arrested for civil disobedience, December 1, 1955.
Retrieved from http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_3.html.
Audio English (2013). Civil Disobedience. Retrieved from http://www.audioenglish.org/dictionary/civil_disobedience.htm. Thoreau, Henry David (2013). Civil Disobedience. Retrieved from
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/walden/essays/civil.html.

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