Charlton Heston, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau may come from different time periods and protested different things, but they each had important similarities such as fighting for the rights that were misused or not carried out. Heston’s “Winning the Cultural War" was misunderstood yet in the right direction He had several places where he is misunderstood such as how gay rights should be equal to ours, yet is called a homophobe. Rights weren’t meant to misuse for one’s own benefit. He is also compared to Timothy McVeigh but the biggest difference between them was that Timothy resorted to violence and Heston uses words. Heston mentions that he “learned the awesome power of disobedience from Dr. King ... who learned it from Gandhi, and Thoreau, and Jesus, and every other great man who led those in the right against those with the might.” These words can easily be used against himself such as before, only that others might call him an anarchist for this even though all the men that were given as examples were all nonviolent. …show more content…
He was stern in his speeches such as “I Have a Dream,” that they should protest peacefully. He inspired hope unlike Heston and Thoreau, probably because of his experience as a pastor. Thanks to Thoreau’s example, King was able to lead his people and give a demonstration of injustice when King also went to jail. He asked his people to “Go… back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.” Also believes that we should not permit our imaginative challenge to the decline into physical violence. Again and once more, we should ascend to the magnificent statures of meeting physical constraint with soul drive, which the Negro’s took to