Nonviolence

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s's speech took place on August 26, 1963 during his march on Washington. King was a Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia and a social activist who played a remarkable role in the American civil rights movement that took place from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. This speech will forever be talked about throughout history, as it is a perfect example of someone that became inspired by advocates of non-violence protest and used that to fight for equality…

Which counts more - taking a stand or winning? Which is more sufficient, taking a stand against the problem and having a half and half chance of getting your side approved. Or would the whole concept of just winning. The concept of taking a stand is the idea of holding firm against someone or something. Taking stands have been around for quite a while in both America and other countries. Taking a stand also takes place in many readings, such as “Beowulf’ and “ Fate will unwind as it must”.…

Young, proud, and bold, these were the adjectives that were used to describe Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. However, these were also the only similarities that these two shared, because while Martin, a role model who believed in Gandhi, led his people with love and the thought of non-violence in both political and social aspects, Malcolm was a man of the streets, who believed in Allah and tried to advocate changing America by any means necessary.…

Have you ever wondered who has the inauguration in history?The best inauguration speech in history to me was John F. Kennedy´s. President Kennedy gave the best inauguration speech in history. One reason this was the best inauguration speech is because he speaks the truth. Not a lot of people like people who tell the truth they would rather have a liar in office than someone who speaks the truth. People don't want someone in office that will tell the truth because they want to stay out of…

Martin Luther King was an African-American Baptist minister; he was known for his non-violent protest to end segregation. He was a man who believe in equals as said in the bible, his devotion to doing as the word of God advised, he decided to take a stand and make a change. Therefore, he did one of his peaceful protest in Birmingham, Alabama. Everything went wrong and King along with other protestors were attacked and put in Jail. While in Jail he was talked about and judged on his…

Henry David Thoreau once said, “Things do not change we change,” explaining his Transcendentalist stance on life’s affairs and unknowingly foreshadowing the change he would cause in future revolutionaries. Thoreau was one of the central figures in Transcendentalism, and an ardent believer in the core principles of it. He, along with the other Transcendentalists attempted to understand the life’s relationships through this movement of thought and individualism. Thoreau played a key role in the…

Did you know that on March 12, 1930, Gandhi began his 200 mile march to protest the British salt act? The British salt acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, which was a major problem because salt played an important role in their diet. Along with this Salt Act, citizens were forced to buy vital minerals from the British at a very high price, with heavy taxes added. Civil disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of…

“If a law is wrong,by heaven, it’s the duty of a man to stand up and say so.” In history there is a large amount of people who went against the law ,peacefully, to achieve a goal that was against society’s mentality/norm; but what is an act of civil disobedience? Civil disobedience is the act of disobeying a law(s) to bring about a social,economic or political change for a better cause. In “The Night Thoreau spent in jail” The main character , Henry David Thoreau, refused to pay taxes due to…

“This girl here was already very insolent in/contravening laws we had proclaimed”, Creon expressed to the chorus leader in Sophocles’ play Antigone (542-544). Antigone was the sister of Polyneices and Eteocles. The two brothers shared the role of king because their father Oedipus passed away because others found out he killed Laius. Polyneices and Eteocles were instructed to rule Thebes alternatively each year by Creon. Eteocles did not want to give up the thrown to Polyneices after his year of…

No government in the world as well as throughout history has been able to avoid the scrutiny of its citizens. In many cases, rebellions have occurred in order to overthrow an unwanted government in favor of a better suited one. However, civil disobedience has allowed the world an effective method of protest that has allowed significant change to occur without war or mass bloodshed. What used to take a war to resolve can now be accomplished with a mass protest where the voices of those who are…