Which protest / demonstration in history has your utmost respect?

Question

Why?

Answer 1

This is my choice.
Surely, I don't need to explain why.

Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989.

The Unknown Rebel:
The unarmed man standing in the center of the street, halting the tanks' progress.
He reportedly said, "Why are you here? You have caused nothing but misery."
As the tank driver attempted to go around him, the "tank man" moved into the tank's path.
He continued to stand defiantly in front of the tanks for some time, then climbed up onto the turret of the lead tank to speak to the soldiers inside.
After returning to his position blocking the tanks, the man was pulled aside by onlookers who perhaps feared he would be shot or run over.

Answer 2

Except for the civil rights marches in the 60s, I feel protests and demonstrations nowadays do NOTHING. THe million man march in D.C. years ago? That did nothing. People protesting for this and that? Waste of time. Unless you arm an entire population with economic and political weapons, you won't do a thing to pressure companies into changing, or pressure society into changing.

When they boycotted buses in Alabama, they brought a service industry to it's knees. When people aren't making money, they will change policy.


I live in Boston. I see 'die-ins' for Darfur every day. It looks to me like 30 people are just napping in the Boston Commons. They do the thing where they walk around in hazmat suits to show chemical poisoning of this-that-and-the-other, and I just think, "It's Halloween early." People pick some new topic for a few months, it gets popular, and then they pick something else. Something newer and sexier, when they get sick of the other thing.

We had a protest for global warming the other day. Hundreds of people DROVE here to spend money on snacks that were DRIVEN here, to protest pollution and oil companies.

Umm.....?

Answer 3

The Tienanmen Square Protests of 1989, as captured on CNN, command my utmost respect--Perhaps because they are more recent than Gandhi's or Martin Luther King's civil disobedience or perhaps because, at best, the protesters knew they faced years in political prisons. Who can forget the live broadcasts of a lone protester facing off with a tank.

Answer 4

The sit down strikes of the civil rights movement because they were peaceful , justifiable , and ethical. It tells me that no one should be treated differently but all people have the right to be served out of common respect for the individual . As long as the individual is in compliance with the marks of courtesy and decency, no one should discriminate due to race, color ,class ,language or religion.

Answer 5

That's a hard one. I would have to say Gandhi's march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt production. We need salt to live. His view was that the British had no moral right to inhibit production or distribution of such a critical commodity.

Answer 6

Ghandi and his movement for India's freedom. With this being said Martin Luther King Jr. followed Ghandi's example for America, not only for better treatment and equality for minorities in the U.S. but for everyone

Answer 7

Protests led by Ghandi.
Protests led by Nelson Mandella
Demonstration of pure dedication by Mother Theresa
Protest by suicide bombers

Answer 8

The Germans who forced their government to open the Berlin Wall.

Answer 9

That one time me and my friend stood in front of the capital and protested protesting.

Answer 10

as a results of fact this u . s . is in elementary terms a pathetic shell of what it as quickly as replaced into. anybody is in debt, dropping their properties, unemployed, and so on. anybody is depressing and taking it out on one yet another. unhappy yet authentic.