Social movements are about ensuring political equality, about creating positive change and about ensuring social justice. Discussions in class have enhanced my point of view about social movements and how they are the mainstay of any successful democracy. If it were not for the Abolition movement, Women’s Suffrage movement or the 1960s Civil Rights movement, this country would not have progressed and evolved the way it has. These movements resulted in transforming the country into a better democracy, even though there was substantial opposition and resistance to these movements. In addition, these social movements have laid the way for the gay movement and many other movements to ensure that nobody is ostracized and denied respect.
Seeds of Peace is another meaningful social movement making extraordinary efforts to realize the distant dream of promoting peace between Israel and Palestine. This movement facilitates the meeting of students from Israel, Palestine, and other nationalities in the U.S. and gives them a platform to live together, and to promote understanding between them. They attempt to build the very world of peaceful coexistence in the U.S. they …show more content…
He commented, “This Israeli conduct reminds us of the wise words of late President Kennedy: We cannot negotiate with those who say, ‘What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.’” He further elaborated, “Palestinians today have far fewer rights than African Americans in America had in the 1950s. We tried for many months to begin serious negotiations with Israel. We said to the Prime Minister Netanyahu, since you openly state to the whole world that you support the two-state solution, why can’t we agree on a map for two states on the basis of 1967 borders? Despite many, many requests, we have never gotten a
Seeds of Peace is another meaningful social movement making extraordinary efforts to realize the distant dream of promoting peace between Israel and Palestine. This movement facilitates the meeting of students from Israel, Palestine, and other nationalities in the U.S. and gives them a platform to live together, and to promote understanding between them. They attempt to build the very world of peaceful coexistence in the U.S. they …show more content…
He commented, “This Israeli conduct reminds us of the wise words of late President Kennedy: We cannot negotiate with those who say, ‘What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.’” He further elaborated, “Palestinians today have far fewer rights than African Americans in America had in the 1950s. We tried for many months to begin serious negotiations with Israel. We said to the Prime Minister Netanyahu, since you openly state to the whole world that you support the two-state solution, why can’t we agree on a map for two states on the basis of 1967 borders? Despite many, many requests, we have never gotten a