Similarly, Hallie discusses in “Cruelty to Goodness” the I – It dynamic in the context of Nazism. He observes, “And when our lives are so maimed we become things, slaves, instruments” (4). In other words, Jews must have felt worthless in this world. They were souls being used as aggressive animals, brutality trapped and abused as savages. So, these people had no other option but to respect and follow the Nazi’s rules, to feel inferior to everyone and regarded as a thing. If they would try to fight for their rights or feel higher than someone else, their lives will be placed in danger such as becoming a slave and mistreated as an animal or thing. Hallie appropriates Reska Weiss’s journey Through Hell (London, 19161) in order to demonstrate the
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We were really no longer human beings in the accepted sense. Not even animals, but putrefying corpses moving on two legs…” (3). By this description, she is trying to explain how people were terribly tormented. People were painfully tortured, but not only pain but also cruelty and human dignity. This explains that “cruelty” and “pain” do not necessarily defines bloodshed but deep humiliation.
In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in 1963, Martin Luther King writes, “I am sure if I had lived in Germany during that time I would have aided and comfort my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal” (9). King grounds his defense of his civil disobedience during the civil rights movement to break the law by helping and not hurting people. He said that all the legal movements that Hitler did in Germany will never be removed from history and people’s heart or emotions. It will also always be remarkable that everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was unlawful. This means that everything was the opposite; the good things were illegal and the bad things were acceptable. It was illegal to give the Jews a hand. King indicates that accepting a law to control the greatest power without evaluating its ethical value produced and enhanced the …show more content…
King has been gravely upset with the white moderate’s concept of injustice. King confesses that he has almost came up with a lamentable conclusion that the Negro’s great struggles in the step toward freedom are not the white Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate “who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension” (10). By this definition King indicates that white moderates are sympathetic to the presence of pressure, in other words, they have an absence of tension to peace, meaning that they have the absence of justice. King defines unjust as a code exists for the purpose of creating justice, and that when they fail to do this they become the dangerously structured barriers that block the flow of social progress. He hopes White moderates understand that in the South the absence of justice is affecting the culture, the people who live there need this type of peace. King asserts “The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people” (2). This definition means that people who were fearfully hidden or avoided the brutal treatment were also considered as bad people, because they did not even attempt to step up and help those poor people who were trapped by the Nazi’s unjust law. The people who were hiding and not connecting or helping people who had their
We were really no longer human beings in the accepted sense. Not even animals, but putrefying corpses moving on two legs…” (3). By this description, she is trying to explain how people were terribly tormented. People were painfully tortured, but not only pain but also cruelty and human dignity. This explains that “cruelty” and “pain” do not necessarily defines bloodshed but deep humiliation.
In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in 1963, Martin Luther King writes, “I am sure if I had lived in Germany during that time I would have aided and comfort my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal” (9). King grounds his defense of his civil disobedience during the civil rights movement to break the law by helping and not hurting people. He said that all the legal movements that Hitler did in Germany will never be removed from history and people’s heart or emotions. It will also always be remarkable that everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was unlawful. This means that everything was the opposite; the good things were illegal and the bad things were acceptable. It was illegal to give the Jews a hand. King indicates that accepting a law to control the greatest power without evaluating its ethical value produced and enhanced the …show more content…
King has been gravely upset with the white moderate’s concept of injustice. King confesses that he has almost came up with a lamentable conclusion that the Negro’s great struggles in the step toward freedom are not the white Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate “who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension” (10). By this definition King indicates that white moderates are sympathetic to the presence of pressure, in other words, they have an absence of tension to peace, meaning that they have the absence of justice. King defines unjust as a code exists for the purpose of creating justice, and that when they fail to do this they become the dangerously structured barriers that block the flow of social progress. He hopes White moderates understand that in the South the absence of justice is affecting the culture, the people who live there need this type of peace. King asserts “The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people” (2). This definition means that people who were fearfully hidden or avoided the brutal treatment were also considered as bad people, because they did not even attempt to step up and help those poor people who were trapped by the Nazi’s unjust law. The people who were hiding and not connecting or helping people who had their