Civil Disobedience In History

In history, the motif of civil disobedience has shown to be both relevant and edifying. The core foundations of the much-envied American democracy lie in peaceful resistance or civil disobedience to the law.

The Boston Tea party incited the American Revolution. The British’s addiction to taxation brought about the Tea Act, taxing all tea imports other than that from their own British East India Company. And like the angry child who does not stand a chance against its mother, he throws a fit to at most induce a reaction from his mother. A reactionary group calling themselves the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and threw all the British tea overboard into the Boston Harbor. The ocean was steeped, and the fish did not sleep for weeks. The American resistance to the taxation law enacted by Great

But as much as the approach of civil disobedience has prevailed effective in the past, the impulsive and vacillating political stage is dictated by a new band of intellectuals. Today’s urbanity has cultivated and nurtured a generation with more needs and a more steadfast, more vehement voice to generate those needs. Take for example the rippling unrest of the 2016 election. People have taken to the streets effusively opinionated on things such as climate change and women’s rights, to name a few. And the ardor and vivacity of these protests spur temper and rage in its participants, creating a colorless and counteractive society. There is a circulating animosity towards the impotent attempts for public displays of protest. A circulating draft has culminated itself into a vicious cycle of reluctance against not only the government, but also all individuals irrelevant to their cause. And in such a dynamic world that finds its relevance in weapons and violence, peaceful resistance to laws will be met with unprecedented oppression that will bring it to a quick