Slavery In Abraham Lincoln's Declaration Of Independence

Amid this, King relies upon many historical and Christian events and concepts that allow him to express why his movement is conscientious and irreproachable according to the examples and justifications he presents. For instance, to support the African-American equal citizenship in this nation where they are undeservedly treated. African-Americans predate to West African Empires that were prosperous, wealthy, and brotherly. They were sophisticated and as powerful as many other empires as well as enviable by the world for its vast resources and flourishing culture, best illustrated by Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta. However, when the white supremacists reached this civilization they ironically brought a stain to an enlightened society and seduced them into …show more content…
Conclusively, he conveys Abraham Lincoln 's most prominent quote during his decision to fight slavery in the Civil War, and Thomas Jefferson’s most controversial line in the Declaration of Independence. First, like Lincoln, King has disclosed the fact that the nation cannot will not survive if not everyone is working together in a brotherly, single-minded society. It is not about making the United states two different identities, but about making two different identities the United States. He wants the nation to non discriminatorily embrace his movement and each other. That is what he understood, and that it what he wanted to apply through Jefferson’s statement, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal….” All of this had something in common that King makes a characteristic of his own, which is the fact that all of these were “extremists...for love,” “extremists...for the extension of justice.” That is what he hopes that the clergymen will understand and see in order to destroy their accusation of his “extremist”