Political protesting has been a way for people to fight for their rights, let their voices be heard, and educate many different people all throughout history. In fact, to this day many people still protest passionately throughout the world. According Jr Thorpe from Bustle, he states that researchers from Journal of Applied Social Psychology, interviewed 231 people at a rally spoke out on their perspectives on why they were protesting, “They wanted to build a community of protestors, influence third parties or the public, and ‘express values.’” By doing this, protesting has become one of the most known defense mechanisms when it came to arguing against the government and policies. On the other hand, not many of the people believe that protests don’t work. Moises Naim from Atlantic expresses that, “no formal affiliation with one another, no clear hierarchy, and no obvious leaders”. Although many people find inspiration and passion from protesting other believe it is disruptive and unorganized.

Violent protesting naturally occurs in protesting and is one of the flaws of protesting. Protesting gets raw and serious when violence happens. According to Chief police at the University of Maryland College Park states “When you have that and it’s a peaceful protest, then suddenly there’s an infiltration with fires starting, it reinforces the bias against college kids and college students protesting. Certainly we don’t want that here. I don’t think my students want that here” Although violence is one of the biggest problems tries to be avoided in protesting, students like in University of Maryland understand that they don’t want a violent protest. Eric Liu, founder and CEO of Citizens University in the “We the Voters” video states that “protesting is inherently about passion. It’s expressing pain, fear, hope, aspiration, anger and of course it can get raw sometimes and confrontational” Violence is a mix of these emotions that happens in protesting so it is a given when it comes to passionate protesting. Overall, violence happens in protesting because of many emotions of people from protesting and sometimes can get out of hand.

Historical protests has taught us a lot and continue to inspire protests today. Specifically, it has shown us mistakes and flaws of protesting. According to L.A. Kauffman, author and movement historian, states that “ a lot of protests felt to me in the late-'80s. There were a lot of times when it just felt like you can bring large numbers of people together but what are you doing but shouting slogans, you know, about changes that are never going to happen.” Bigger protests with more people don’t necessarily determine the protestors. America starts to learn that many different people go to protests for different reasons, therefore may create flaws within protesting. On the contrary, protesting has shown us a new world of passion that can make a difference when done right. Robert Y. Shapiro, writer for Washington Post states that “that protests put and keep issues on the political agenda. That is how the civil rights, Vietnam War and women’s movement protests ultimately had their effects: Political leaders and voters paid attention to the issues raised, which eventually led to political and legal change.” Iconic protests that shape our society today are examples of how protesting can manage to make a huge difference in our world. All in all, history has taught us the ups and downs of protesting, but also that it make a difference.