Resistance
Without Violence Throughout history the unjust components of
government have produced opposition from the people underneath it.
At times people would resort to violent action to fix the wrongs of
the civil governments of their country, but several social leaders
brought people together to do this in a more caring and peaceful
manor. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas K. Gandhi, and
Henry
David Thoreauall assembled citizens of their respective
countries in resistance to the wrongs of their governments. While
these three leaders used no violence in their campaigns for
justice, they all had different opinions on the approach of the
opposition as well as the reasoning behind the resistance.
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While this
stands evident, the courses of action deviate in the completion of
the movements. King had a focus on immediate demonstration to
create equality in treatment of other people and to completely
eliminate injustice from the world. He believed that some laws
under a civil government needed to be demonstrated against because
they were unjust and restricting on freedom. Injustice anywhere is
a threat to justice everywhere (King 282). By comparison, Thoreau
relayed a similar message of fighting the civil government but
remaining civil with treating everyone like friends and with
respect. He stressed that the government needed to earn respect
from the people rather than having the need of the people to earn
such treatment for themselves. Without the friendly treatment no
respect is earned, so the people need to work to have cooperation.
I saw that the state was half-witted
that it did not know its
friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it,
and pitied it (Thoreau 86)
When one pities their own government,
there is clear proof that change is needed, and Thoreau could see
this. In both the writings of MLK and Thoreau it is easy to see
that both parties took a role in the opposition towards the civil
governments laws with a friendly
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