Nonviolent vs. Violent Revolution - 1782 Words

Dulany Harms Professor Guneyli ENG-101-05 September 15, 2008 To Be Violent Or Not To Be Violent? As long as there have been people on earth, there have been societal injustices. Societal injustices occur when one segment of society believes it ways are better than another segment of society and tries to oppress them. Eventually, the oppressed will revolt against the oppressors. When this happens, the revolution can take one of two approaches. There can be a violent movement or a non-violent movement. Revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Adolf Hitler used violence and death to accomplish their goals. Revolutionaries such as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dalai Lama have used non-violent means such as†¦show more content†¦By 1933, he was made chancellor of Germany. Hitler silenced all opposition through the use of intimidation and violence. Those that continued to oppose him were murdered, most often by a secret police force. In 1939, Hitler’s all-encompassing lust for power drove him to start World War II by invading Poland. â€Å"During the war he executed his plan to an organized mass murder of the millions of Jews among the populations of countries under his control. About 6 million European Jews were murdered before the war ended† (Adolf Hitler-Biography, Part 2). Tens of millions of people died during World War II. Hitler’s reign of terror ended in total defeat on April 30th, 1945, when he committed suicide in his underground bunker with advancing Soviet forces less than a mile away. Hitler, Guevara, and Castro should have listened to Gandhi when he said, â€Å"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind† (Moncur). Non-violent movements can involve sit-ins, peaceful demonstrations, peace marches, speeches, and other ways to spread the word about one’s beliefs. Some examples of non-violent protestors include: Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dalai Lama. Beginning in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi spent 20 years in South Africa op posing discriminatory legislation against Indians. He was a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience. In 1914 he returned to his native India where he supported Indian independence byShow MoreRelatedThe African American Struggle for Civil Rights in the 1960s760 Words   |  3 Pagesthis influential movement. In the beginning of the movement there was a focus on nonviolence, and the non-violent techniques began to pay off in the early 1960s. As the time progressed the struggle for African Americans during the civil rights in the United States. Towards the ending of the period hope was lost when major civil rights activists were assassinated. In the early 1960s non-violent techniques began to pay off with sit-ins, marches and other forms of protest. 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