Martin King Ali Civil Disobedience

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As a nation with laws and rules, we can only expect people to disagree with those laws or break those laws. Sometimes civil disobedience is needed to make a change in the law or draw attention to it. We see civil disobedience throughout our history and we know it works. As a firm believer in civil disobedience, peaceful resistance to laws can positively impact a free society. Civil disobedience can come from one man or from many.

As the famous Muhammad Ali said, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Ali certainly stung the nation when he said he's not going to fight overseas when the draft called for him. Ali instead opposed the system and stood up for what he thought was discrimination because many other African-Americans who were not smart was being shipped overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. He knew the consequences and was willing to accept it even if his career was on the line. Ali's actions of civil disobedience brought an action to the draft and its system of discrimination of uneducated African-Americans during the 1960s. Many Americans began to oppose the war itself by protesting it and taking the same action …show more content…
Martin Luther King Jr. peacefully protest against the discrimination and the "separate but equal " ruling of African-Americans in the South. They marched throughout the South, boycotting bus stations, and marched directly to Washington D.C. to fight and bring attention to the inequality of African-Americans. MLK's "I have a Dream " speech at D.C. left the nation shocked as it highlights the incarcerations of African-Americans. Eventually, MLK and many other civil rights leaders were able to end the segregation in the South and throughout the nation. Along with ending segregation, their hard work made the government add the 14th Amendment to the Constitution allowing all citizens to have equal protection of the law and to be treated
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