Albert Einstein once quoted, “Be a voice not an echo.” This quote implies that one should not believe in something just because everyone else believes in it. The Civil Rights movement was a movement that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s and was meant to give equal rights to African American people and terminate discrimination. Some excellent examples of people who stood up for what they believe include Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and an activist who believed that racism was unwarranted, even though numerous people dissented with this. In his illustrious, “I Have a Dream” speech, he declared that people (of any race) had the right to work in harmony and live together without
