Peaceful resistance positively impacts a free society because a free society needs to be able to express their values in ways that can bring about change. People who do this accept the consequences of their actions and face people who want to see them fail. By resisting peacefully, those people are attempting to gain trust and a strong following from people who want to see change. Martin Luther King Jr and Muhammad Ali are two people who pursued this method with strong criticism from society. Their actions played a major role in the changing of America's conscience.
Muhammad Ali's act of civil disobedience showed us as a nation that we value issues that are not our own. The issue that Muhammad Ali faced head on was the war. People at the
