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Similarities Between Roosevelt And Martin Luther King Jr

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As the saying goes there are many ways to skin a cat. My essay has to deal with two individuals, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt, while acting against social injustice, they acted in very different ways. Similarities Martin Luther King Jr. stated “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.” Eleanor Roosevelt, mentioned Adolf Hitler when she wrote,” If we examine Hitler’s rise to power, we see how the chains are forged which keep the individual a slave and we can see many similarities in the way things are accomplished in other countries. Politically men must be free to discuss and to arrive at as many facts as possible and there must be at least a two–party system in a country because when there is only one political party, too many things can be subordinated to the interests of that one party and it becomes a tyrant and not an …show more content…

stated” when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you go forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness"–then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.” He was saying the time is

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