civil disobedence
Civil disobedience is an intentional and public violation of a law and willingness to except punishment by the law breaker in order to bring about some type of social change. ... Martin Luther King was an African American Baptist minister and was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950’s and 1960’s. He also won the 1964 Nobel peace prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations. ... King had a very strict set of standards he believed a person should follow when committing an act of civil disobedience. ... King’s theory of civil disobedience can be used to assess other acts of law breaking. One of the most famous acts of civil disobedience in western culture is portrayed in Sophocles play, Antigone written in 441 B. ... Antigone commits her own act of civil disobedience in the play. ... King’s theory of civil disobedience. ... King believed that before any person commits an act of civil disobedience that that person should be undoubtedly sure that the law they are about to break is truly unjust. ... King’s four step process of civil disobedience by beginning with collection of the facts. ... Then a person should attempt negotiation as a way of solving the problem, to possibly avoid the act of civil disobedience all together. ... King and a group of affiliates were preparing for direct action in a well planned act of civil disobedience. ... King says this he shows that a person should be sure that they will be able to follow through with the entire act of civil disobedience, most importantly, without instigating violence. ... When committing any act of civil disobedience Dr. ... Then if a person were not to do so, he believed the act of civil disobedience being committed may end up being pointless, or the effects trying to be made by the law breaker, could even be reversed. ... King’s theory of committing an act of civil disobedience solely for common good, and never for any type of personal satisfaction. ... King’s theory of civil disobedience is when she claims she is burying her brother to satisfy the higher law of the gods.