Go to the resources tab and use the EBSCOhost link to search for the following articles, then, using thequestions below as a guide, write a 75-100 word response about the issue being discussed. Next, please take the time to respond to your classmates.
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Go to the resources tab and use the EBSCOhost link to search for the following articles:
- King, M. (2009). Letter from Birmingham Jail.Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1.
- Kim, R. (2011). The audacity of Occupy Wall Street.Nation,293(21), 15-21.
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In his"Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights activist,claims that "one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" (King, Jr., 1963, p. 5).These sentiments have been shared by some of the most recognizable names throughout history, including America's forefathers, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, and so on. Dr. King, as well as other from our list, were practicing civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience doesnot advocate a lawless society.Civil ddisobedience is not the same as someone simply breaking the law. Civil disobedience is an organized process of law breaking that follows very strict guidelines:
- Conscientiousnessgenerally aimed at creating or restoring a certain freedom or liberty for all members of that society,
- communication with the governing body,
- publicity,
- and non-violence.
Practitioners ofcivildisobedience. more often than not, take aim at laws considered to be unjust.Click here for more on this paper.......
- How do we choose which laws are just and which ones are not?
- What lawsdo you see that seem to fit themodel of what King would call unjust?
King goes on toexplain that those who are "more devoted to 'order' than to justice" were the real enemy of his movement toward civil rights (p. 7). To do nothing, King implies, is to err on the side ofthe status quo. Think of someunjust things you have witnessed, yet failed to act on.
- Had you acted on it alone, would your involvement have changed anything?
- What if we all reacted too swiftly and jointly to matters of injustice?
- How does the act ofexercising of our first amendment rights, especially when we work together, help to shape the world we live in?
- How did the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) use civil disobedience to further its cause?
- Considering the outcomes associated with the OWS Movement, could we claim that the days of effective civil disobedience are over?Click here for more on this paper.......
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