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While when discussing the history of the world’s power forces, violence makes for stimulating discussion, other tactics were put to good use, one of these alternatives being non-violence. With the guidance of three worldwide heroes - Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela - with contagious optimism and high spirits, it became apparent just how much of a difference could be made carried out through non-violent terms. Mankind was introduced to another way to resolve major problems just as effectively, if not more, than violence could.

The British fired the first shot at the Battle of Lexington. For example, “...I believe between 200 and 300, formed in a common in the middle of the town….As we came near them, they fired one or two shots, upon which our men without any orders, fired and put them to flight” (Document A: Barker). Lieutenant John Barker was only one person in the British Army, and it is very unlikely that he was able to see, or hear, everything that was going on from his position on Lexington Green. As he approached the Green, he could have only been in earshot when the minutemen were firing in response to the British firing and not when the British first fired, or he thought the shot or shots were from the opposing side and not his own. Also, “While our backs

What if you were in a country where you were forced to overpay on everyday items, but were not able to change this in any way? If you would feel angry, and frustrated, then you would have sympathized with the American colonists in the mid 1700s. America had grown tired of being taxed relentlessly because of the heavy payment of the French and Indian War. One-sided acts and laws such as the Intolerable Acts and the Stamp Act treated the colonists unfairly. Thoughts drifted toward rebellion, and the people were empowered by acts of defiance against the British. The Boston Tea party and the speech by Patrick Henry made the Brits pass more laws and acts, causing an uproar in the colonies. Many unreasonable laws and acts of defiance led the country

After the Civil War, Congress and the president set up a new government agency to help former freedmen. This new government agency was called by the name of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The Freedmen 's Bureau also was an agency to help former slaves adjust to freedom after the 13th Amendment ended slavery. Their purpose for running this agency was to give out clothes, foods, and medicines, which reduced the death rate of many African Americans. They also did many other things like create schools for African Americans, like Atlanta University,

Non-violence is a peaceful strategy people used in the 1900’s to revolt against the government. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Mohandas Gandhi had the most success in changing the way we live today. How did they get nonviolence to work? Well they were very disobedient, disciplined, and determined to make a change in society.

In the years following the War of 1812, the “Era of Good Feelings” evolved between the years 1815 and 1825. In the first half of this period, there was a strong sense of nationalism throughout the United States. However, political changes and economic differences between the states warped this nationalism into the sectionalism that divided the country into north, south and west regions. Celebrations of unity within the United States soon turned into disagreements concerning representation within the government and the differences within the national government caused by the emergence of different Republican factions. States distanced themselves from working collectively in a united economy. They were largely concerned with

The success of the fight for racial equality, also known as the Civil Rights Movement, in the United States was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Between the 1950s and the 1960s, civil rights activists practiced non violence in hopes to end racial segregation and discrimination across the country and worldwide. Leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Jim Lawson, and John Lewis believed strongly in this philosophy of nonviolence as the key of success for the Civil Rights Movement.

In the pursuit of social justice and civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael, sought to amend a flawed system. To accomplish this task, these men entered the armory and chose to wield nonviolence as their weapon. Their goal: to combat violence with nonviolence, to fight hate with love, and to spread equality through peace. In the end they succeeded. Violence breeds violence, hate breeds hate, it is an ineffective approach and an archaic mean to resolving societies issues. Malcolm X and Carmichael were both extreme individuals but that does not make them violent. They attacked social justice and civil rights passionately and assertively, not violently. The methods used

Non-violent resistance is the best resistance. “This was always a cry that we had to set before people that our aim is not to defeat the white community, but to win the friendship of all persons who had perpetrated this system in the past.” (Teaching). Don’t humiliate the enemy when you can get them on your side. Some of the most powerful movements where MLK’s peaceful protest. “Nonviolent protest is the most effective weapon against a racist and unjust society” (Andrew March). The Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the March on Washington are two peaceful protests that fist come two mind from MLK, and both where very effective. With peaceful protest the step in the revolution for equality had a

Nelson Mandela was a great leader during a time of oppression towards nonwhites in South Africa. He led a peaceful resistance to end apartheid in his country, which led to his first arrest and time doing hard labor (Pechey, 2008). This strategy was not working and Mandela approved of tactics involving violence against the government in order to end apartheid and to create a democracy that would grant rights to all people regardless of their race. His shift from a peaceful resistance to a violent one was justified and modern ethical thinkers would have approved of the shift as well.

When we look at people like Martin Luther King Jr. who fought to end segregation we see that his nonviolent and his charismatic way of dealing with problems changed the world. If he was to use violence more problems would have come out of his situation than solutions. The more you fight back violently the more others will do the same and same goes for the opposite. This man had a dream and his dream is todays reality.

Non-violent protest is one approach to addressing small or global acts of inhumane conditions of people experiencing racial, ethnic, gender, social, and economic disparities. Peaceful demonstrations such as the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi’s Indian independence movement. Estonia’s Singing Revolution, or Invisible Children’s social media uprising, have been successful in making the world aware of the problems people are facing. These movements have inspired change. It does not mean that the non-violent protestors have not suffered violent consequences. Nor does it mean that the perpetrators have ceased from committing in humane acts indefinitely. The hope remains strong to settle differences peacefully. Peaceful protestors will not always escape a demonstration unscathed in the justice process. Violence will always be inevitable where there are men who gain from other people’s suffering or where there are men who seek to gain freedom. It seems as if violence is to peace as yin is to yang.

In a country where many people have been exploited for personal gain, the only way to resist the patriarchy and be heard is through the act of nonviolence. Nonviolence is practice many used to in order to be heard without the use of hurting others. Nonviolence is an effective way to stay on the offensive that is crucial to make a change in the world.

In South Africa, he spent 20 years opposing discrimination against Indians. His work in South Africa was necessary because South Africa passed a law requiring all Indians to register and get fingerprinted; this was unjust because only people of color, native Africans, and Indians, were targeted by this law. Gandhi was imprisoned several times because he was fighting the system; he always did so non-violently even if they were using force. One time while he was in jail he read Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience.” This essay gave him the words he needed to describe what he was doing: civil disobedience. As part of his approach to nonviolence, he let himself and those he was with getting beat up without fighting back. This approach is an extremely powerful way to show how much abuse you’ll take to win what you

To start, Nelson Mandela had courage, a large group that shared the same ideas that he did, and the dedication to his fight that made him sacrifice so much. For instance, “I learned the meaning of courage...showing a strength and resiliency that defies the imagination” (Mandela). This shows how Mandela had courage, which ultimately was his inspiration for freedom to be widespread, for both the oppressed and the oppressors. Additionally, “I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked like I did. That is when I joined the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater