There are many in this world who have died innocently for what they believed in and for taking actions to make a change in their society for the greater good. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in equality for all races in the United States and lead the Civil Rights Movement for African Americans. He also believed in education and in values of morality based on religion and conscience. Socrates believed in searching for the truth, in rhetoric, in questioning the world, the meaning of life, and reaching the virtue of knowledge. Both of them carried on actions that would attempt to surpass the status quo of the mentality of the society they lived in. This caused disapproval of many, which lead to enemies, and later deaths, although they were …show more content…
Socrates believed that our lives are based on conscious decisions, which were guided from our rational principles. His work shows that knowledge, is virtue, good, and truly beneficial while ignorance, is bad, which could lead to an evil action, and be truly harmful. I can connect this lesson with MLK’s speeches where he attempted to talk to society to allow them to realize that inequality of races was ignorant and harmful. MLK utilized his knowledge and faith in God, to allow the public to consider his words in reaching a society where men and women of all races lived in a peaceful, desegregated, non-violent society. Just like Socrates would question every aspect of life, so did MLK, by questioning the laws that were unjust at the time. MLK did not emphasize that one should break the laws he believed were unjust, but he would bring it to the attention of everyone to allow them to analyze the laws that were set in place. He had the idea to non-violently make changes in the governmental system and used the Law of Non-Contradiction in a manner that showed that the rights that were available for white people should be available to all mankind, regardless of