Civil Disobedience Both Mahatma Gandhi Term Paper

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Both the British Empire and the American South shared a prejudicial view of minorities. Both set themselves up as superior to those who were forced to obey their laws, and believed that their citizens were inferior due to their race.

Rosa Parks is now known as "the mother of the civil rights movement." Her actions began a series of events which ended much of the inequality faced by African-Americans in the South. Like Gandhi, she took down her oppressors. She thought this of herself, "I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and posterity for all people."

Both Rosa Parks and Gandhi's actions caused significant changes in the social order of the regions which they lived.

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However, the civil rights movement in the South, despite its successes, has not achieved the monumental success seen in the case of Gandhi. He successfully got the British out of India with passive and nonviolent civil disobedience.

I believe that Rosa Parks and Gandhi serve as excellent role models for those who live under constant oppression. They show how civil disobedience does not have to involve bloodshed, but that decisive victories can be won through passive, nonviolent strategies. In a world consumed by violence, sometimes a nonviolent act can speak louder and have more long lasting affects......

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