Affirmative Action Is NOT Justified In Oedipus The King

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I feel that King’s acts are justified. He obviously isn’t causing any harm to anyone. He’s just trying to get his point across in the most non-violent way. The fact that others disagree with his is crazy.

King has a process in order for him to protest. As it states in the text, “In nonviolent campaigns there are four basic steps;collection of facts to determine whether injustices exit; negotiation; self purification; and direct action.” In my opinion, him going through all of the steps is insane.

Not only that but King understands that the people; that go against him only mean well. As it states shortly,” But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticism are sincerely set forth, I want to try and answer your statements..” This means that he understand that the people who opposed him had good intention however are just too scared to speak up.

We have waited such a long time for our natural rights. While other countries are moving quickly to gain independence, we’re advancing at a snail's pace. So maybe it’s easy for a person who’s never
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There are a ton of quotes that can be be referenced from this page. One being,”I doubt that you would so quickly commend the police if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of negroes here in city jail...if you were to observe them as they did on two occasions refuse to give us any food because we wanted to sing are great together. I cannot join you and your praise of Birmingham police.” In my opinion, this statement really relates to “The judgement of God is upon the church as never before.” Why? Because this shows why God would judge us. Humans treating other humans like trash because of what they look like. Disrespecting and shaming others because of their color. God will most definitely would not want this. She wanted us to live in harmony, together as one. Not separate because of such silly

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