Assata vs Socrates The fight for justice continues, as we distinguish two different scenarios and compare and contrast them to each other. Assata Shakur and Socrates were one and the same. They both were opposed by the government, convicted to long-term prison sentences, and received neglect that posed a threat to their humanity. These two individual not only showed courage, but also they showed that they stood for something one-hundred percent and backed up everything they stood for. Both Assata Shakur and Socrates received tremendous love and hatred from their community. With This essay I will give information about each individual, compare and contrast those two individuals, and choose which path I would have taken. Putting myself in the …show more content…
Staring with Assata Shakur, who is a very smart and courageous woman. Being a part of Black Panther Party group and standing for equal rights retaliating with the same force the oppressive system gave. Assata unknowingly joined the Black Liberation Group in hopes of change for black Americans, but instead received tremendous amount of hate from the white society. Being targeted by the FBI and a secret counterintelligence agency called CoIntelPro. After the infamous 1973 shootout in New Jersey where she was shot twice and captured, Assata tried reasoning with the officials but they wouldn’t budge. This group attacked them with false documents, kidnapping, robbing, aiding and embedding, lynching, and even deaths of African Americans for years. When Assata had the chance to escape prison she took it with no hesitation. With all the piled up charges put on Assata and other …show more content…
He had nothing to rebel against other than the people who he felt were not as smart as they say there are. Socrates’ friends were trying to persuade Socrates to leave and stop from having to be killed. Socrates doesn't want to leave as it will disdain his name, and he would be performing evil for evil. Socrates reasons for not going leaving the community are solely based on his principles and respect for his government. Trying to convince Socrates from staying we meet Crito. Crito is supposedly a friend to Socrates but his words and actions does not speak the same intentions. He tells Socrates that if he will not leave and escape prison, that everyone would think that he didn’t care about his friend well enough to help him. Socrates is not concerned about the opinion of the majority, for it is capable of neither the greatest evil nor the greatest good. Crito then questioned Socrates on many different things and also degraded his name and manhood. Some of the concerns listed by Crito regarded Socrates’ kids, the fact that his friends may be excluded from the Community, and playing into the hands of his enemies and giving aid to the ones who are disregarding the demands of justice. Socrates responds to this and admits that his exuberance is invaluable if it is used in support of what is right, but if used in support of what is wrong it leads to an even greater evil. He showed