I believe that freedoms should be demanded. Freedom is both a luxury and a right. It is true that all people deserve to have freedoms, but they do not always get them. Throughout history, there have been many points where they were withheld from people because of religion, race or anything that made them a social anomaly. A famous example of this is the period of brutal racism and prejudice in the United States that sparked uproar and protest from the African-American community of that time. For hundreds of years they were oppressed, discriminated against and marginalized (gentrificated) because of their skin color and finally, after many failed attempts, there was a breech in the color line of America. Dr. Martin Luther King gave a riveting
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He gave them a voice and with that, they used it to rise against their oppressors and demand to be treated as humans. The demand for freedoms still go on to this very day, as faint and insignificant as it may look. When the Black Lives Matter movement protests police brutality or the failing education system in underprivileged communities, they are calling out racially charged issues as their ancestors before them did. If people were simply satisfied with what they had and never acted out for basic rights, there would be none. Work needs to be continuously done to keep even what they now have. If African-Americans in the 1950s said nothing about the way they were treated, even after Dr. King’s speech about how they needed to be equal, his cause would be worth nothing. Things would still remain the same as they were before he spoke out against racism. Going on to today’s society, if people sit idly and do nothing, that is the same thing as asking someone to take away their freedoms. The African-American community finally has freedoms because they had fought for them and would not stop until they got them. If no one is willing to put forth effort for the cause, it will soon become …show more content…
The words that motivated them, in fact, were abolished from their new claimed land and replaced with words of pride for that leader. He was godlike, all the animals respected him and they never questioned him, not even when he deliberately went against the original rules for his own malicious purposes. The animals lived with the faith and hope that their leader always wished to do well by them, even when they thought things seemed worse than ever before. In the end, when they found out that their leader and all of his allies were worse than their old owner, they still could not comprehend how their freedom had turned in the opposite manner in a matter of years. Each day, each passing moment, the lives of the animals worsened until they were just as enslaved as they were before. When the naive ways of the animals turned into blunt awareness, they turned to one another, hoping that someone would do make things better. No one had the abilities nor means to cause another rebellion. The belief that freedom, once given, cannot be take is false. Things like this do not only happen to fictional animals on a fictional farm, but to actual people in real life events because they assume that freedoms are permanent. Animal Farm teaches that without actively fighting for freedoms, no matter how hard they were fought for in the past, means nothing unless the freedoms are continuously
He gave them a voice and with that, they used it to rise against their oppressors and demand to be treated as humans. The demand for freedoms still go on to this very day, as faint and insignificant as it may look. When the Black Lives Matter movement protests police brutality or the failing education system in underprivileged communities, they are calling out racially charged issues as their ancestors before them did. If people were simply satisfied with what they had and never acted out for basic rights, there would be none. Work needs to be continuously done to keep even what they now have. If African-Americans in the 1950s said nothing about the way they were treated, even after Dr. King’s speech about how they needed to be equal, his cause would be worth nothing. Things would still remain the same as they were before he spoke out against racism. Going on to today’s society, if people sit idly and do nothing, that is the same thing as asking someone to take away their freedoms. The African-American community finally has freedoms because they had fought for them and would not stop until they got them. If no one is willing to put forth effort for the cause, it will soon become …show more content…
The words that motivated them, in fact, were abolished from their new claimed land and replaced with words of pride for that leader. He was godlike, all the animals respected him and they never questioned him, not even when he deliberately went against the original rules for his own malicious purposes. The animals lived with the faith and hope that their leader always wished to do well by them, even when they thought things seemed worse than ever before. In the end, when they found out that their leader and all of his allies were worse than their old owner, they still could not comprehend how their freedom had turned in the opposite manner in a matter of years. Each day, each passing moment, the lives of the animals worsened until they were just as enslaved as they were before. When the naive ways of the animals turned into blunt awareness, they turned to one another, hoping that someone would do make things better. No one had the abilities nor means to cause another rebellion. The belief that freedom, once given, cannot be take is false. Things like this do not only happen to fictional animals on a fictional farm, but to actual people in real life events because they assume that freedoms are permanent. Animal Farm teaches that without actively fighting for freedoms, no matter how hard they were fought for in the past, means nothing unless the freedoms are continuously