The practice of taking protest beyond the public square to the homes and private lives of public officials and their families breaks with a long and honorable tradition of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience that runs through Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. “The point of civil disobedience is to break unjust laws civilly and justly. To be jailed for doing the right thing draws attention to the injustice of the law and the system that executes it” (Filia,
Protest Gone Off the Rails
Protest Gone Off the Rails
Protest Gone Off the Rails
The practice of taking protest beyond the public square to the homes and private lives of public officials and their families breaks with a long and honorable tradition of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience that runs through Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. “The point of civil disobedience is to break unjust laws civilly and justly. To be jailed for doing the right thing draws attention to the injustice of the law and the system that executes it” (Filia,