Malcolm X once said, “Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” (Malcolm X). One might think that anger is destructive and counteractive and only causes people to yell. However; anger is a drive with in people that pushes them to fight for what they believe is right. In any revolution, movement or riot for change it was anger that drove the people to fight for their cause. Anger is a positive force that brings significant change in civil rights as demonstrated by Malcolm X and Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Movement of the ‘60s, and the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
The Civil Rights Movement was a drive of purposeful anger that swelled from hundreds of years of systematic racism of black people and caused a powerful change in civil rights. The straw that broke the camel’s back was Rosa Parks arrest for sitting in the front of the bus. This set off a fire of furry within African Americans and which led to the boycott of the …show more content…
In the early hours of June 28, 1969, a group of customers at the popular gay bar in Greenwich village called stonewall Inn, who had grown angry at the harassments by police, took stand and a riot broke out. As word spread throughout the city About the rebellion, the rioters were joined by other people, shouting “Gay Power”. Night After Night the fire continued to burn within people and pushed them to fight. The Stonewall Riots Inspired LGBT people throughout the country to organize protests in support of LGBT right. Within Two years after the riots gay rights groups had been started in nearly every major city in the united states. The anger of those few customers was the match to a barrel of gunpowder, which ignited a world nationwide discontent to and motivated to use their own anger to
The Civil Rights Movement was a drive of purposeful anger that swelled from hundreds of years of systematic racism of black people and caused a powerful change in civil rights. The straw that broke the camel’s back was Rosa Parks arrest for sitting in the front of the bus. This set off a fire of furry within African Americans and which led to the boycott of the …show more content…
In the early hours of June 28, 1969, a group of customers at the popular gay bar in Greenwich village called stonewall Inn, who had grown angry at the harassments by police, took stand and a riot broke out. As word spread throughout the city About the rebellion, the rioters were joined by other people, shouting “Gay Power”. Night After Night the fire continued to burn within people and pushed them to fight. The Stonewall Riots Inspired LGBT people throughout the country to organize protests in support of LGBT right. Within Two years after the riots gay rights groups had been started in nearly every major city in the united states. The anger of those few customers was the match to a barrel of gunpowder, which ignited a world nationwide discontent to and motivated to use their own anger to