Persuasive Essay On Civil Disobedience

For many years people have been taking and having to follow laws may they be just or unjust. A natural response for every individual if not most, is to simply go along with these laws. However, there is a debate on whether we should challenge these laws through civil disobedience or not. Ultimately, it is the duty of moral citizens to engage in immediate civil disobedience in response to recent police shootings, which can be can be considered an abuse of power by the government. Famous leaders such as Thoreau have come across the idea that a nation can not stand if there is no conscience. People should not rely on following laws just because a government is imposing on them. In the case of the police shootings, it states that not just the African American community has been getting abused by the police but other races as well, such as Latinos. This is not an issue that has happened once or twice or even three times, but countless thousands of times. Throughout history we the people have been speaking our grievances to the government of their over power, but have been told to wait. The longer we wait, the more we will be continually told to wait.
He wrote a letter to the clergyman to state that they have told him to wait for the last time. Our government is oppressive. It seems as if the only way to get the government to be concerned with the people is to do something enormous, let it be civil disobedience. The government executes a law and the government then hires police officials to follow through it at any cost. The police is not the issue as it is more the government for letting the police get away with their police violence, which in this case is the shootings. An act of civil disobedience can be violent, but they do not always have to be that way. We do not have to execute violence as we will be acting like the police themselves, as it is better to take the peaceful