Madison Meeks – Media Director

mvm7037@psu.edu

At critical points in history, people have protested to have their voices heard. Protesting is when someone who is not a politician disapproves of an idea and decides to take action. It is even when people with two different points of view want to voice their opinion and they gather to voice that opinion. The act of protesting leads to the question of does protesting make a difference.

Does protesting make a difference? Protesting is used to give people a voice and for people to let their voices be heard. Some of the most critical civil rights came from people protesting to have their voices heard. Protesting allows people to have voices instead of their voices being silenced by politics. There have been so many important protests in history that have led to people changing laws and policies. Protesting is in so many ways important that the act of protesting does make a difference.

Protesting does make a difference because it allows people to express their opinions on not just politics but civil rights as well. Protesting can allow a person to make a difference and state that they might not agree with a political policy that is being put in place. Protesting is important for basic civil rights. Some of the civil rights that people have today might have not been possible without protesting, for example, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1913. Protesting has been used through movements like the civil rights movement and the March For Our Lives, which was a protest to end gun violence. Protesting is the reason that people have the rights that they do today. If protesting did not make a difference, then those rights would not exist. 

Protesting makes a difference to civil rights because as history has proven, people have fought for their rights through protesting. For example, the March on Washington, Boston Tea Party, and The March For Our Lives.  Protesting lets people speak about issues that need to be heard and need to be taken seriously. Issues are not always looked at like they should be and protesting helps bring light to that. Protesting does make a difference.