Eassy 2 Its pretty much next to impossible when talking about human rights and not being able to mention Martin Luther King and Mohanda Gandhi. Both men are consider iconic figurers in the fight for human rights, and both have shared the same ideas and philosophies. Both firmly believed that non-violence methods was the best way to bring change to the world and to stop chaos from taking place. Though they both shared the same beliefs, both men had some differences in approaching the matter at hand. While Martin Luther King strived in using tactics of non-violence protest and marches to influence the media to gain equal right for all, Gandhi used fasting and composed general ideas and rules of how one can be a non-violence individual (passive resister) that all could follow to brake away from a nation. But did both mens belief stay
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Gandhi offers guidance to being a passive resister by writing, “only those who can realize that is something in man which is superior to the brute nature in him, and that latter always yields to it, can effectively be passive resisters”(446). So in a sense to resistance to fight even when the person does deserve it. But this Is were ones circumstance comes into play while gandhi was writing to an audience who deeply respects him and agree with his ideas, Martin Luther in the Letter from Birmingham Jail is writing to an audience who have seemed to back stab him a are starting to fall off as his followers. My statement is supported when King himself writes “While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and un timely”(213). He goes on further saying he feels that that the men who are calling him out are “genuine good will” and they their “criticisms are sincerely set forth”(214). You probably must imaging that king was being fairly sarcastic when he wrote that
Gandhi offers guidance to being a passive resister by writing, “only those who can realize that is something in man which is superior to the brute nature in him, and that latter always yields to it, can effectively be passive resisters”(446). So in a sense to resistance to fight even when the person does deserve it. But this Is were ones circumstance comes into play while gandhi was writing to an audience who deeply respects him and agree with his ideas, Martin Luther in the Letter from Birmingham Jail is writing to an audience who have seemed to back stab him a are starting to fall off as his followers. My statement is supported when King himself writes “While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and un timely”(213). He goes on further saying he feels that that the men who are calling him out are “genuine good will” and they their “criticisms are sincerely set forth”(214). You probably must imaging that king was being fairly sarcastic when he wrote that