Civil Disobedience: Non-Violent Protest

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right” -Rosa Parks. There are many ways and forms that people use to protest against laws and rules that they don’t like or find unjust. Forms both violent and not, that achieve their goals in very different ways and with varying results. Among these is civil disobedience, which is the act of opposing a law one considers unjust and peacefully disobeying it while accepting the consequences and is perhaps the most effective form of non-violent protest, though it is not without fault. Civil disobedience, like all forms of protest, can positively or negatively impact a society; it just depends on the context.
The US Civil Rights movement, for instance, is an example of an extremely positive change that arose from civil disobedience. The de-segregation of the entire United States, and basic human rights finally being granted to African-Americans’ was a monumental change in the nation that has brought about so much good. The simple, nonviolent actions of a few changed the nation, and helped an entire race of people. From Rosa Parks
In cases of civil disobedience, the benefits more often outway the costs, as opposed to different protests, where so often the cost is too high for the protest to be considered truly positive.
Of the many forms of protest civil disobedience, a non violent protest, is one of the most effective kinds with the least amount of consequences for everyone. As a whole it is largely more beneficial to the people it affects. In a free society, where people have the right to protest things that they find unjust, civil disobedience is the best and most positive form of