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Martin Luther King Jr.: Struggle For Freedom

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Jaqueline A. Favela
Mrs. Jolliffe
English 1302:605
11 February 2017
Struggle for Freedom
A person’s humanity can become ignorance and hate once the moment to accept another person as his or her equal is presented. Throughout history there have been people who have led disastrous actions against people that they considered inferior to them. An example of this is the African Americans’ struggle for equal treatment in the 1960s. During this period, the Negro community suffered from the cruelty inflicted by the white community. In this type of situations, fear prevails by preventing those who are affected to oppose and fight for their rights. However, there is always a person who gets tired and starts to raise his voice motivating others to unite …show more content…

Birmingham was one of those places. African American people were treated as inferior individuals only because of their skin color. This lack of respect was what prompted Martin Luther King Jr. to demand justice because “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Dr. King was right, every single person has rights and nobody should be allowed to deprive another from them. However, when a person demands his oppressor to be treated as his equal, this despot person feels attacked and offended because he loses control over those he considers to be born to be repressed. Being free from oppression is what every person wants. And this desire is what motivates them to keep fighting. Fear should not lead a person’s …show more content…

Discrimination has been the author of death and other unforgivable actions. In the same way, rejection can hurt more than a low blow. It completely consumes a person’s humanity by depriving others of what they deserve by nature. Undoubtedly, injustice is a devourer of dreams and hope. For this reason, it is necessary for someone to motivate others to fight for what was taken away from them. Martin Luther King Jr. employed “nonviolent direct action” to show the racism that African Americans suffered by the white community. However, he was heavy criticize by people like “the Alabama clergymen who considered that such methods of direct action did not help to solve the problem. Unlike, direct action incited hatred and violence” (Carpenter et al.). Considering the criticism, the answer that the clergymen received was one forge by wisdom, sentiment, and commitment. Dr. King said that “nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue”. In this way, two or more groups of people who cannot reach an agreement are required to find a solution that benefits each one of them. While struggling to find better treatment and conditions of life, people risk everything they have. They eagerly look the way to be recognized as the victims and not the authors of injustice to later

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