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Essay On Nonviolent Resistance

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“The greatest hope for humanity lies not in condemning violence, but in making violence obsolete” (Raqib Paragraph 16). This statement conveys how nonviolence resistance can defeat oppression and can discourage violence when resolving problems. Oppression is an unjust treatment or control added to others. There are many ways to overcome oppression, nonviolent resistance is the most accepted, due to the fact that during many years, the method of acceptance has created no difference by just waiting and violence only causes people to reject the idea or topic being protested. Nonviolent resistance, specifically, the practice of speaking out, is the most successful way to overcome oppression because it does not cause harm to others while protesting …show more content…

In the text, “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, the text recaps the response Martin Luther King Jr., had to the 8 clergymen choosing to accept the discrimination and hate that they encounter on a daily basis. King believes and gives support for reasons why these men are wrong because, in their perspective, they believe it is morally wrong. In the text, “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, by author Martin Luther King Jr., King explains how describes the acceptance has been long used and nonviolence injustice creates a difference in which acceptance has never brought. The speaker states, “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored” (King Paragraph 11). This textual evidence helps contribute reasons how awareness is raised, compared to other ways of meeting oppression because the direct action in nonviolence resistance can change opinions of oppressors. This awareness creates a change that can spread until a difference is accomplished because a known statement is being brought up. Nonviolence resistance can also cause oppressors to change their mindset on the protested

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