While King was giving the speech he included himself as being discriminating against. He stated some as simple as being on the bus and how he was thrown to the back because he was African American. King knew that if a person that has gone through the struggle of being treated differently, there would someone else just like him with the same struggle that would have his back. And gain supporters to stop racism, and make racism something people hate to see not join in. Martin Luther King Jr knew that non-violent protests is the way to go if you’re trying to make a…
"Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?" Martin Luther King Jr.'s son asked his father this because as a young boy he realized that people were treated differently. Using his son as an example for his speech to people will really get the public's' hearts to break and feel horrible for what this young boy realized at the age of five. “The answer lies…
In a “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King, Jr. said “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This means that if we let injustice happen, then this injustice will grow and start to affect good people. We cannot afford to ignore something bad happening in one place. If injustice occurs and no action is taken against this injustice, then people who hear about what happened might think this injustice is acceptable, and continue being unfair.…
Objection of what is unjust has long been a part of human nature. Human beings have the tendency to oppose things that contradicts their morals or beliefs as it indirectly challenges who they are or what they stand for. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. responds to clergymen who criticized his actions and role in the battle against segregation. These actions that were carried out by King were done so because he believed it was his moral responsibility, he believed it was his obligation to fight for the rights of all people. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. argues how the demonstrations he took part of are in fact justifiable as African American individuals were being overwhelmingly maltreated and degraded as human beings.…
Groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, known as the KKK didn’t care about what Martin Luther King Jr. had to say. The KKK scared blacks into leaving town by burning homes, crosses, buildings, putting up signs, and killing blacks all over the country. Blacks were portrayed as horrible people in the 1960s ("blogspot.com"). If whites saw blacks somewhere they would call them out their name, and tell their children not to communicate with them and they would ask what’s she or he doing here.…
Even though some people didn't agree with Martin Luther King Jr., his assassination was unjustified because the whites were scared that blacks would someday have equal rights to them and he also fought through segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader born on January 15, 1929 and died April 4, 1968. He was a pastor at a church named Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. He had 2 sons, Dexter Scott King and Martin Luther King III, and 2 daughters Yolanda King and Bernice King. He lived in Atlanta, Georgia and died in Memphis, Tennessee. He is mostly known today because of his speech, "I had a dream". The cause of his assassination was the because the blacks outnumbered whites and that made the white people scared so they shot him in Tennessee while he was standing on his balcony and a bullet struck him in his jaw and different parts of his spinal cord.…
More importantly, how would he respond? King is synonymous with the idea that we should only judge people by the context of their character, not by the color of their skin, people always fall victim to stereotyping whether on purpose or not certain events eventually shape someone’s perspective on a certain topic. For example, if someone would go to Chicago knowing the situation it’s experiencing, people would think before going there as they would associate Chicago as gang territory. As a response to this stereotype, King would use a line from his paper titled “Facing The Challenge Of A New Age “ saying the following:” "Freedom and Justice through Love." Not through violence; not through hate; no, not even through boycotts; but through love. It is true that as we struggle for freedom in America we will have to boycott at times. But we must remember as we boycott that a boycott is not an end in itself; it is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor ”(33). What King is implying in this passage is that history shows multiple times that many a path to a more prosperous land, we must follow the original goal of gaining peace and freedom for the community with acts of love and compassion rather than alienating ourselves from such a goal by inciting acts violence that only deters progress. In terms of today’s society, King’s approach may seem futile, as the…
King serves as an inspiration to countless citizens, including me as he seized on a ginormous problem in his life and tackles this dilemma. Today, racial discrimination is it’s known name; Dr. King didn’t admire the unfair inequality some people received even after the Civil War that was fought for no slaves and equality to everyone. “To that end, he traveled the world proclaiming his vision of the "beloved community," and defining racism as a worldwide evil.” (Martin Luther King’s Dream of Racial Equality) Dr. King knew the importance of the matter at hand and with his infinitely powerful speeches, he motivates the entire world to undertake some change about the inequality. Wars today in other countries are often fought for religious freedom or other troubles that are about church. Racism, a worldwide problem, is a matter we can start solving little by little if we just choose to glance beyond skin color, religious beliefs, and other attributes that some people judge separate us to choose how we treat them based on their personality and overall how they are as a person. Dr. King’s inspirations also changed what others thought concerning equality, which shows he’s just as easily going to be an inspirational man to several people now and in the future of the…
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote this letter in the Birmingham City Jail. He was a clergyman, however his activity in demonstrating against racial discrimination became his legacy. In this letter, which he wrote on April 16th, 1963, he appealed to other clergy against injustice for black people and he explained why he chose a nonviolent demonstration campaign. Actions of the nonviolent demonstration at first seemed ineffective and powerless, however people began to notice that the status quo of racial discrimination was very strong, unjust and immoral. He wrote that not taking action against discrimination, even if one’s opinion was against it, amounted to supporting it. He wrote about the prospect of having to explain to a child why she can’t go to a white amusement park in a TV commercial, and how terrible that was to the adult and the child. He wrote about the importance of resisting or even breaking unjust laws, and about how law enforcement in the south was a big part of the problem. Police, politicians and the courts were biased against black people. And if he sued against racial discrimination formally, he could not win in court due to the racially biased laws in the south at the time. Also, he mentioned that black people cannot wait to change the world. He said everyone, not only black people, needed to appeal to abolish racial discrimination as soon as possible rather than to the accept status quo of racial injustice over the previous three centuries. In this letter, I felt King’s enthusiasm for equality winning against discrimination. I thought that staging protests and demonstration were very effective for appeal his opinion to people…
Martin Luther King Jr. believed in also practiced nonviolent resistance because he understood that was the way of life. In the 1966’s that year initiated the first public encounter to the philosophy and approach of nonviolence within the civil right movement. During the deadly racist violence against the nonviolent workers embraced Dr. King’s commitment to nonviolence as a total way of life and inviable ideologies. Many of activists were willing to use peaceful protest and there were the fearful men who would not join the nonviolent movement because they would not remain nonviolent if attacked. He mentions violence is a strategy for social change in American is “nonexistent” and all of the daring talk and wrath produces no action and signifies…
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Three Ways of Meeting Oppression” Dr. King gives us three ways in which oppressed people such as African Americans dealt with their oppression. The first one is acquiescence in which individuals let themselves get dragged into their own oppression. If one accepts their oppression it simply means that they are proving to the oppressor that one is inferior. The second way that oppression is dealt with is violence. Violence does not solve any issues within the oppressed it only causes more issue as well as hatred. Finally the best way one should deal with oppression should be non-violent resistance. According to Dr. King it will work against the oppression not the oppressors themselves. Although I agree with Dr. King that non-violent resistance is the best way to deal with oppression many of individuals such as myself have to acquiesce when it comes to our jobs.…
Martin Luther King’s determination in civil rights had led to many quotes and statements that we esteem today. In “Letter From Birmingham Jail” he states several things that I agree with and disagree with. One quote reads “it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture, but…groups tend to be more immoral than individuals” I strongly agree with Dr. Kings quote and can relate from my prior experience and knowledge.…
Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful man with good intentions for civil right. He wrote an extensive letter to eight clergymen who condemned the timing of the civil rights movement on April 16, 1963, from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama. Even though the letter was addressed to the clergymen, the message was geared towards a larger audience, especially King’s “Christian and Jewish brothers” (King). King believes that without direct action, the rights for African Americans could never be achieved. He defends the impatience of people in the civil rights movement, upholding that without forceful demonstrations, equality will never be reached. King also upholds that human rights must take precedence over unjust laws. His language and use of classical argumentation make his case resilient and convincing.…
Martin Luther king has a moral character has proven to the people that he is a serious man and very trustworthy. When people look at him they could see that kings beliefs were not a joke to him. The Baptist minister was an activist and was a leader in the African American civil rights movement. King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. In his speech he asks the people to take their money out of downtown banks and deposit their money in Tri-State Bank—for a “bank –in” movement. Kings says “I’m not asking you something that we don’t do ourselves at SCLC.” “We’re just telling you to follow what we’re doing.” From this you can see that he basically was saying that you can trust him.…
arkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”…