Dr. Martin Luther King was quite a wise man. He has many famous quotes and we will be addressing one that talks about identifying America’s problems and finding a way to solve it. The quote states “We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing- oriented’ society to a ‘person- oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” Dr. King, was basically explaining why America needs to change in order to succeed, many people would oppose to this comment. However some like myself would agree, why because he identifies the problem that America has, that we have a damaged society. We are a ‘thing-oriented’ society but we need to become a ‘person-oriented’ society. Since our society, the American society, is ‘thing-oriented’ we view machines, computers, profit motives, and property rights more important than humans, specifically others humans rights. America has come along way from slavery, but there is still racism within our society. …show more content…
It’s also an excuse given by one ‘race’ of people to abuse another person’s rights. Stereotypes prove that racism still exists. How you may ask? Well people tend to say whites all dress the same, Sperry’s are white people shoes, uggs are white people shoe’s and simply southern or confederate flags shirts are all for white’s. That’s far from true, we are putting a label on clothing that certain groups of people wear, but there are other races that wear that type of clothing as well. We can’t just go and place labels on a certain shirt and say ”oh that’s a white persons shirt” that’s just