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making migrant workers’ lives better. Gandhi was dedicated to defending the rights of Indians all over the world, and Bryan Stevenson is dedicated to helping people who were wrongly imprisoned because of racial bias. All three of these men used nonviolent protests to help their cause, and were extremely dedicated because of injustices that they faced. Gandhi used marches, boycotts, and fasts to defend the rights of non-whites in South Africa. He called this method “Satyagraha”, and it was very efficient

Earnest Johnson Ms. Cooney English CP10 28 February 2017 Research Paper First Draft Most people think that the National Anthem Protest is a about how police treat many African Amercian different than a Caucasian. Many of these NFL Players should be able to take a knee during the national anthem because it is their right, and although some people think it's disrespectful, it is a non-violent way to protest police brutality NFl Players should be able to take a knee because it is their

The first thing King does to respond to this was he establishes his rhetorical authority by saying how he is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which has affiliates in Birmingham whom invited him to participate in a nonviolent direct action program. Too add to this he talks of the injustices that linger throughout

John Stuart Mill’s political philosophy is consequentialist due to the fact that utilitarianism is directly related to one’s happiness and reality in which they come to the point of being happy. Consequentialist is the philosophy that say the right moral decision produces the best consequence. An individual’s happiness is related and defined upon the ethics of morality, of an action based upon the outcome of that actions consequence. Mill defines “happiness as pleasure and the absence pain” (Mill)

In 2016, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, kneeled for the first 3 games of the season while the national anthem played. He did this alone, and his response was, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color,” Kaepernick said. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder” (Gaines, 2017)

In conclusion, people believe that violent protest are more effective. That believe that, despite the destruction of personal property and harm that is inflicted on other people, violence solves all problems Works Cited Barat, S. (2017, January 10). OPINION: Destructive riots can achieve more than peaceful protests. Retrieved November 29, 2017, from https://www.redandblack.com/opinion/opinion-destructive-riots-can-achieve-more-than-peaceful-protests/article_50d79bee-d2b5-11e6-8c01-f3a989d2d72d

Recently NFL players have decided to kneel during the playing of the national anthem. The reason they are doing this is to protest a number of things ranging from the unfair treatment of African Americans to protesting against various things in their local communities. The protests started out as just a few players taking knees during the anthem, but this past week it escalated to the majority of the NFL taking part in some sort of protest. What sparked these players to join in was a tweet by Donald

With everything that’s been happening in the news as of late, my opinions on NFL football players kneeling during the national anthem is that there’s a time and a place. And during the national anthem at a football game is not the time or the place to protest police brutality and racism.     Is forcing a time and a place to protest taking away the rights of Kaepernick and other NFL players following his example? In our Constitution it states that, “It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting

An object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Newton’s first law of motion identifies what is needed to produce change. Oscar Wilde shared similar observations when he said, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” Both Newton and Wilde recognized how force was essential in order

This photograph, taken in 1967 in the heart of the Vietnam War Protests, depicts different ideologies about how problems can be solved. In the picture, which narrowly missed winning the Pulitzer Prize, a teen is seen poking carnations into the barrels of guns held by members of the US National Guard. This moment, captured by photographer Bernie Boston symbolizes the flower power movement. Flower power is a phrase that referred to the hippie notion of “make love not war”, and the idea that love and