People should apply civil disobedience to react to the situations which the government legally creates but end up being evil. Individuals should resist harsh laws and make their implementation hard. In this context, citizens should regard obedience to particular rules as relative rather than absolute and oppose them when necessary for self or others’ defense. Consequently, people should show disobedience to an unjust state or a given regulation and accept the consequences of breaking the law to attract national or international attention.
The Antebellum reformers employed both combat and non-violence techniques to address the imprisonment, punishment, and slavery issues. The transformers engaged in temperance and women’s movements to advocate for alcohol prohibition and enhance gender equality, respectively. They also enforced the colonialists’ tactics, such as paying the masters to release slaves, and abolitionists’ methods, for example, calling for the immediate abolition of slavery without any compensation. Besides, the fighters employed book writing to challenge injustices and voluntary associations to drive the transfiguration.
Violence was the last resort when all legislative and non-conflict measures failed. Some circumstances required confrontation to realize the desired state of affairs during the Antebellum period. Accordingly, the change champions participated in riots to express political interests, counter exploitation, and affirm justice’s meaning and implication. Notably, there was a need to use mobs to eliminate social disorder, which the administration generated immediately.
The class discussion on the objection of injustices, such as slavery, inequality, and racism through violence, reflects the historical and current events. Similarly, the evaluation of Antebellum reformation signifies how people rose to protest federal policies undermining human rights. Correspondingly, this week’s presentation explains the reasons behind the past and present events, particularly the protests, such as “I can’t breathe,” which followed Eric Garner’s murder and insinuated the blacks’ oppression.