Defining Power

             Subject: World History (But it applies to much more)
             Title: "Power Comes From the Barrel of a Gun" - took the opposing view
             "Would you respect me, If I didn't have this gun?
             'Cause without it, I don't get it,
             Power. A word from which many meanings derive. To each
             individual, it means something distinct and it is how one uses their
             power that makes up who they are. Power does not come from the barrel of
             a gun. A gun can do nothing without someone there to pull the trigger.
             The power to take a life rests within the person, the gun simply serving
             as their tool. When groups protesting for a cause they believe in use
             violent tactics, do they ever accomplish anything? When we kill , what
             do we achieve? To say that power lies in the barrel of a gun is to say
             that the most effective way to get what we want, or what we feel we
             deserve is to murder. It is only those with no faith in their dreams, or
             belief in themselves who could make such a statement.
             Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "If a man hasn't found
             something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." A leader in the Black
             community and the recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, King's
             accomplishment of attaining civil rights for Blacks was a great one, but
             the road to achievement was long and full of sacrifices. It was a time
             when Blacks had no rights and most of them accepted this as the way it
             was and no one could do anything about it. Most of them, but not King.
             When the police arrested a black woman for sitting in the front of the
             bus and refusing to give up her seat to a white woman, King led a
             committee that organized a boycott of buses. The results were that on
             April 23, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that "segregation in public
             transportation is unconstitutional" and that South Carolina as well as
             12 other states must remove the "whites only" signs that hung...

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