When Disobedience is Acceptable

Title: When Disobedience is Acceptable
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
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When Disobedience is Acceptable

When Disobedience is Acceptable In the year 2000, one can go to most any high school football game and observe a ritual that is becoming more and more widespread and symbolic in meaning to its participants. Before the football game begins, the Star Spangled Banner is played and sung, the flag is raised, and each school’s band plays their Alma Mater. But where in years past there would have been a stadium-wide prayer for the …showed first 75 words of 1528 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1528 total…true to himself and his beliefs, despite what the institutions of government and law have to say about it. Civil disobedience when carried out for the right reasons, in my opinion, is praiseworthy, blameless, and inherently righteous. Bibliography Works Cited King, Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” A World of Ideas. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. Boston: Bedford Books, 1998. 151-169. Thoreau, Henry David. “Civil Disobedience.” A World of Ideas. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. Boston: Bedford Books, 1998. 123-146.

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