There are so many different people in this world, to be exact there are 8 billion people worldwide. Every single person is different, however some believe that it is wrong to be different. Inhumanity towards other humans still exists till this day. Their lack of empathy towards others can take various forms such as physical violence, discrimination and neglect. If we keep repeating the same history, then there is nothing that we learned from the past. The past is what holds us back from moving forward. Instead of giving hate to other people, humans need to learn empathy towards others.
Rubin Carter was a American-Canadian middleweight boxer who fought for his innocence against the triple homicide murderer. He has fought harder in the court system than in the boxing ring. He wrote a book called The 16th Round to tell his innocence. In the film The Hurricane, the film adaptation of Rubin Carter’s autobiography, The 16th Round, Carter tells Lezra: “It is very important to transcend the places that hold us” (The Hurricane). He demonstrated his willingness to fight until the end by never giving up on his freedom.
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Maya Angelou is an American poet who uses poetry as a weapon against any discrimination towards black community, she is the embodiment of the entire African Race. In her stirring poem Still I rise, Maya Angelou tells the readers “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise”(39-42). She tells the readers “I am the dream” referring to Martin Luther King Jr's famous quote “I have a dream”. She is the dream of Martin Luther King