Mistake
History has teach generations and generation but hasn’t prevent generations from mistakes. As Edmund Burke once said, “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little”. During the American Revolution, Edmund Burke played role as opposing for taxes in the colonies. He believe constitutional government should be flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances nationally or globally. Throughout years, Edmund Burke’s quote has reflect historical events just as Civil Rights Movements and Civil War.
An example that reflect Edmund Burke’s quote is a book written by Harper Lee called To Kill a Mockingbird, because the narrator’s dad named Atticus Finch is helping Tom Robinson with his case unlike other people who are doing nothing to help Tom except believe false evidence. To Kill a Mockingbird is about Scout Finch, narrator, describing her childhood and race problems in Maycomb during the 1930’s. Tom Robinson is convict of rape which …show more content…
In 1960’s, Martin Luther King Jr. and other supporters fighting for equality were protesting about the treatment of African-American. The officers in Birmingham send all protesters to jail for protesting while the court told Martin Luther King Jr. to stop protesting. During the time Martin was arrested, he wrote a letter known as “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. In the letter, Martin replies to people that they should wake up and realized black people are equal to white people. As Martin states, “For years now I have heard the word ‘Wait!’….This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied’’(King 178). King is emphasizing to communities to stand up and fight for rights than to do nothing and if the community doesn’t stand up they might never receive their rights. The “Letter from Birmingham
History has teach generations and generation but hasn’t prevent generations from mistakes. As Edmund Burke once said, “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little”. During the American Revolution, Edmund Burke played role as opposing for taxes in the colonies. He believe constitutional government should be flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances nationally or globally. Throughout years, Edmund Burke’s quote has reflect historical events just as Civil Rights Movements and Civil War.
An example that reflect Edmund Burke’s quote is a book written by Harper Lee called To Kill a Mockingbird, because the narrator’s dad named Atticus Finch is helping Tom Robinson with his case unlike other people who are doing nothing to help Tom except believe false evidence. To Kill a Mockingbird is about Scout Finch, narrator, describing her childhood and race problems in Maycomb during the 1930’s. Tom Robinson is convict of rape which …show more content…
In 1960’s, Martin Luther King Jr. and other supporters fighting for equality were protesting about the treatment of African-American. The officers in Birmingham send all protesters to jail for protesting while the court told Martin Luther King Jr. to stop protesting. During the time Martin was arrested, he wrote a letter known as “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. In the letter, Martin replies to people that they should wake up and realized black people are equal to white people. As Martin states, “For years now I have heard the word ‘Wait!’….This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied’’(King 178). King is emphasizing to communities to stand up and fight for rights than to do nothing and if the community doesn’t stand up they might never receive their rights. The “Letter from Birmingham