A Quilt Of A Country Analysis

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I believe that, Yes “all individuals can live together, as a member of one human race”.

The reasons as to why i believe,we can all live as one human race, is, For instance, all of americas *historic highlights= Important events that took place in history, Ex:Equal rights, same sex marriage*, were made possible because of, different people coming together for a common goal. For example, on June,26,2015 same sex marriage became legal, how do you think they achieved that goal, they achieved it by coming together and supporting one another, and fighting for what they though was fair, and righteous. In a book called, “A Quilt of a Country”, the author wrote about a similar, event, that took place in history, but this event wasn’t positive, It was negative, and that event was, 9/11. 9/11, was a horrendous event, that effected the united states, as a whole. It sent America into a state of depression, and grief. But the thing is, with
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Thought history there have been people who devoted there life to justice, and fought for there rights, but there are certain people who went to the maximum limit, they were brave, courageous, and they believed in equality, and some of those people are M.L.K Jr., Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, and Malcolm X. With this in mind, what would happen if “we didn't live together as one human race”, would any of these brave,courageous people exist to, our knowledge, probably not. All of those people, did important deeds, that made america, a better place. They took a stand, they went to jail for our freedom,and, yes they would fail and fail agin, but that didn't stop them, they “strived off there failure”. The story “A Quilt of a Country”, influenced my main second reason, my second influential reason, stated “Striving frequently off of failure”, for short, it basically say, that, even though they failed, they're going to try harder and

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