The Pros And Cons Of Nonviolence

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it It is a sword that heals.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.. This means that nonviolence can be just as effective and impacting as violence itself, except nobody is being hurt mentally or physically by it. Nonviolence shows the public that no harm is meant towards others, and that the fighting side is not really fighting at all. All that they hope and wish for is to be on the same side that everyone else is on. This concept is powerful like sword, leaving a mark on the people whom it passes. However, it does not wound the people in its wake. The stories Imagine This Was Your School, Teen Freedom Fighters, and The Brave Boys of Greensboro all prove …show more content…
In this story, people all over the country marched across the nation to bring attention to, and to stand up for the unequal rights that have been brought before them. The text states that two teenagers named Charles and Lynda marched calmly down the streets of their city in protest. Charles was sprayed with tear gas and fought for the slightest ability to take a breath for his survival. Lynda was dragged and beaten with a club to the point where it cracked her skull open. In the midst of all this, they never laid a finger on those authorities. In the end, they kept marching on, eventually having 30,000 people add to the crowd of injustice. The peaceful approach and non-aggressive acts made the public interested in what these people promoting desegregation had to say, not fearful of them. This large amount of people made people think about the situation, not just act out without their heads in …show more content…
This story was about four boys who started a movement of protesting Jim Crow laws by refusing the demands and rules of white authority figures. In the passage, these four African-American boys sat in an all white restaurant, that was in obvious support of segregational manners. When asked to leave, the boys respectfully declined that they would simply like to be served before they left. This sparked a movement of people refusing to obey a white person’s “rules” that were not required by law. By being kind, respectful, and unharming to the public, these boys started a positive movement that got the most anti-desegregation of people to at least look at them and pay attention to the rights that they did not have. No one was negatively affected, and that made people respect African-Americans even more. People have to be aware of the issue, not the acts of violence that could put them in danger because of