Compare And Contrast Hitler And Bull Connor

Improved Essays
In order to bring fore change peaceful actions are needed. Change is uncomfortable, when you are accustom to certain habits it is painful to break out of. Bull Connor, a police commissar during the civil rights movements pose as the hindering force. Connor is an example of someone who hindered peaceful changes, by civil rights activist. In contrast, Hitler an insane military dictator eradicated actions of nonviolent change. Which led to the next way to bring fore change, violence. When peace is remove from any situation violence is sure to come. Both men are prime example of what happens when you remove peace from a situation. Martin Luther King suffered violent confrontations from the police officer, which was under the authority of Bull Connor. Martin Luther King acted peacefully, advocating for African Americans about their equal rights. Martin Luther King felt guided by God, to push for civil rights (Larry). Nevertheless, Bull Connor was the disrupting force which created violence. Connor was persistent and wanted racial separations to remain the way it was (Larry). In comparison, Hitler hated Jew and was determined to get rid every Jew and anyone who …show more content…
Bull Connor got a squad of polices officer, and attacked a bunch of innocent African Americans who were boycotting for their civil rights. Bull Connor authored many violent attacks. One of the most famous incident that Connor Bull ratified, was the spraying of water on a bunch of African Americans using high powered firehose. This incident became well known because, it was one of the first to air on television. It gave people all over the United States a visual picture of the violent Racal tensions that was taking placing. In comparison Hitler methods were far more deadly. Hitler took as many Jew as he could find, place them in a camp, and did all kinds of evil things to those people with intentions to purify the

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Dr. King’s third response was to the allegation that the peaceful, direct-action triggers violence. He explained his belief that the greatest hindrance to freedom of blacks is the white moderate, who is devoted to “order than justice,” and who prefers “negative peace, which is the absence of tension, to a positive peace, which is the presence of justice.” Dr. King went on to say that it is illogical to assert that their “peaceful actions” initiate violence. He also pointed out that it is immoral to force an individual to forfeit their constitutional rights because it prompts…

    • 1004 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    These concepts of peaceful protest would be used in many struggles as King and his followers fought for equal rights. Often when people witnessed the peaceful response by Dr. King and his followers to the brutal oppression they faced, they were influenced to join his cause (Sohail,…

    • 833 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Non-violence works as a strategy to bring about change because it is morally and strategically superior to any other strategy, and because it works for changes that will benefit all people. Non-violence, as a morally and strategically superior method to bring about change is first seen in Document 1. Document 1 is a letter from Mohandas Gandhi to the English governor in India where Gandhi explains why he plans to use non-violence and how doing so will make British recognize the “wrong they have done to India,” (Doc 1/ Letter to Irwin). Also in the document, Gandhi points out that the physical harming of a peaceful entity violates the morals of nearly every civilization around the Globe. This means that by using non-violence, Gandhi’s movement is morally superior to his opposition, which put the morals and reputation of the opposition into play, coaxing the other side to comply with Gandhi’s requests.…

    • 443 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    "Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. "(King and Carson). Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the significant leaders in fighting for the equal civil rights for the Afro-American society.…

    • 809 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King Jr. addresses eight of the most respected clergymen in Alabama about their inaction and failure to support a movement that they should. King also points out that the white moderate, who say that they agree with him, have become too comfortable in the current system and because of that do not truly want the change that they call for. One of King’s biggest grievance with the white moderate and clergymen that he addresses is that they are not willing to stand up against an unjust law. To make this point clear he compares the unjust laws that they are unwilling to break to those of Adolf Hitler. King mentions “that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’”, but if he “had lived in…

    • 1116 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    4) Martin Luther King explained the term of his action called “Civil disobedience”. And it is nothing new. As reference the Bible, he gives the example of the refusal of some Jews to listen the law of Nebuchadnezzar which was unconfirmed to the religious and ethical law. In the same way that some Christians refused to listen to the unjust law to the Roman empire. This civil disobedience leads to the creation of academy freedom a degree due to the civil disobedience of Socrates.…

    • 1204 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    conventions. Martin Luther King Jr. was christian, and never reacted to counter-protests with violence. Malcolm X, on the other hand, was famously quoted saying, "By Any Means Necessary", which alludes to the violent measures he was willing to take to get his point across. Martin Luther King Jr. believed strongly in integration, and pushed to integrate public facilities across America.…

    • 102 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Cesar Chavez Violence

    • 208 Words
    • 1 Pages

    At any given moment and location, a conflict is occurring, whether it be a protest, a movement, or even a war. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, the world was slowly but surely progressing through a turbulent era, which included the farm workers’ movement that Cesar Chavez was a part of. Oftentimes, people who are a part of or are just watching a movement and conflict unfold, claim that violence is the best way to get a swift, immediate, and definite result over nonviolence. Violence may be the best way to solve a situation, but is it the most effective and safest way to do so? Although resorting to violence in certain situations is necessary, Cesar Chavez, who published an article in the magazine of a religious organization, effectively argues…

    • 208 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The Militant Peacemaker

    • 1117 Words
    • 4 Pages

    History Will Not Absolve the Militant Peacemaker History has shown that the quest for power is absolute. Many have used any and every excuse they can in order to obtain it. Those that are hungry for power will use all forms of manipulation necessary in order to obtain it; even the cloak of peace. They say that in order to create a peaceful environment, they must burn it down. They say that in order to create peace they must first kill anyone in their way.…

    • 1117 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Through out the past century our people have continuously been brought down and shoved aside for who we are and what we stand for. The civil rights act of the 1960's was as peaceful as the country would allow but with every peaceful moment the country had brought down intense force trying to stop the change that was heading for America. Where in 1969 the Stonewall Riot was brought about when the patrons began rioting against the police in hopes to stop the police brutality. It then lead to several days of demonstration that helped cause a nationwide appearance of the LGBT+ community. In 2014 after many cases of cops shooting innocent men and some children the Ferguson Riots came to surface.…

    • 798 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Merriam-Webster dictionary defines racism as “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race” (Racism). The United States is no stranger to racism as it had suffered from it for well over four hundred years. The stimulant that started the chaos of racism was slavery in which there were injustice and segregation of the blacks in the community even after the Civil Rights Movement. Racism is still occurring in the United States to this day despite all the disarray that was meant to fix it.…

    • 1724 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As the paranoia and hysteria grew Hitler followed out his plans to exterminate the Jews by making concentration camps to imprison and torture them. First the Jews had been raided and taking violently from their homes. As they bided in the concentration camps, many torture tactics taken were to inflict pain until massacre, such as a firing squad, starvation, dehydration, disease, gas chamber and physical exhaustion. Even after the bodies were deceased, they gave the Jews not an ounce of mercy, thrusting the bodies into a burning furnace. In contrast to the belief that it is a witch hunt some might differ that the Holocaust is not a witch hunt because condemnation refers to the disapproval of something not the execution of people.…

    • 1029 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In today's society, it seems like everybody has their own opinion and many people are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that their viewpoints are known and heard. Peaceful resistance is a great way of letting your opinions be known to others. Often times, though, people will not accept the consequences of their actions. While actual peaceful resistance can be beneficial to a free society, there's a fine line between being a social reformer and simply being a nuisance. If a person was to look back on history, they could see that some of the greatest peacemakers of the world accepted the repercussions of their actions even though they were doing the right thing.…

    • 638 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.” This is a quote from Martin Luther king Jr an activist for equal rights for african americans during the 1960’s until he got shot in 1968. This quote means that people have to do something for change, they have to push against the grindstone and when it doesn’t move just keep pushing until it does.…

    • 1158 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Sarin Gas Attack And The Iran And Iraq War

    • 1115 Words
    • 5 Pages
    • 9 Works Cited

    During WWI poisonous gas was used to break through the front lines, this caused people to die, and live the rest of their lives with health problems like blindness, lung problems, mental issues, or heart problems. During WWII Adolf Hitler set jews in gas chambers. Gas chambers were described as rooms that were airtight in which tons of jews were forced into to be murdered. These chambers then released tons of toxins thus suffocating the jews leaving them to die due to the poisonous gas in the air they couldn’t escape from. Hitler used this as a quick and effective ways to try and eliminate the jews.…

    • 1115 Words
    • 5 Pages
    • 9 Works Cited
    Superior Essays