Comparing Letter From A Birmingham Jail And The Four Freedom

Throughout history there have been many situations where people’s rights have been taken for granted and many brave faces that has risen to the occasion to support the rights of others. Some of these brave people were Martin Luther King and Franklin D. Roosevelt. These two men are known for advertising the rights of others. They stood up for what they believed in, which was freedom and equal rights for all Americans. In both the Letter from a Birmingham Jail and The Four Freedom’s speech they both discussed why everyone should have equal rights, they both used religion to back up their claim, and they both discussed basic human rights that all people should have. Firstly, King stated in lines 26-27, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice

Roosevelt stated “This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women, and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God”. This shows Roosevelt believed what he preached. This persuaded and caught many of his audience’s

Roosevelt stated in the Four Freedoms speech, “The first is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world, The second was freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world, The third is freedom from want, which means, economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants, everywhere in the world, and The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor, anywhere in the world”. Do you notice that in these Four Freedoms he committedly says “everywhere in the world?” Not just in the U.S but everywhere. All humans should be free everywhere which at the time not many people understood. Kings basic rights were spread all throughout his document like the rights to have Non- Violent protests, the right to not be afraid of living your life as a black individual and the right to have equal rights as all people