Rules and laws regulate our society. These guidelines set forth the boundaries that American people can live and carry on their lives without disrupting the social norms. Rules are created to keep everything fair and equal for all people. Laws serve to eliminate arguments that may arise about the proportion of any agenda. Civil disobedience is the want or demand for change by rising up against societies laws, rules or norms, and accepting the fate and penalties that one may receive after his actions are carried out. Civil disobedience serves as an essential player in the functioning of democracy. To remove civil disobedience from our curriculum is like removing the keystone from the foundation of a building.
             The world is constantly evolving around us. Exploration and technology paved the way for mankind into the twenty first century in the wake of new laws and norms. Civil disobedience is history, both present day and future. Our children learn history throughout their careers as students. If we are not willing to teach civil disobedience, we will have to cut the entire history program out of a student education. Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi and Plato are all prime examples of people willing to rise up against a law or social norm, in order to make their point heard.
             One of the greatest advocates of civil disobedience is Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King forever changed the once segregated country that we lived in. He led our country through one of the greatest civil disobedience movements in history. His vision was clear to cease all racial segregation and control over this country. Dr. King had no other alterative than to use the power of his followers' voices and actions through any advocating movements such as shut-ins and marches to make his voice heard across the nation.
             Civil disobedience can happen any time and any place. We all have different values and feelings about current or past events th...