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for poor men. Then their white wives. Today, it is for everyone who has ever had
to suffer oppression of any sort. It is for anyone who is willing to work for it. And
some who don't even give that much. When the United States as we know it was
formed, it was created as a place to be free, not the land of oppression that it became
later on. In 1776, when the founding fathers, bellies full of the food that the
founding mothers cooked and in the house that they kept tidy, penned the famous
document known simply as "The Declaration of Independence". It was a message
to their oppressors, the governing body of their mother country, Great Britain. It
said, in a simple but eloquent way, that it was over. They wanted a divorce and
they're keeping the house. They were Geniuses and Visionaries. Heroes and Role
200 years later, in a more modern time, amidst the turmoil of the aftermath of
two devastating wars and in a country that was looking forward to testing its wings
as a complex society, a few more founding fathers sprung up. They may have been
200 years late, but the message they brought was timed all too well. Names lik
. . .
apparently, this time made all the difference. What will you do?
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. I hope that I may have shed some
light on the recent past values of our country.
One of the most famous maxims of the Declaration of Independence is the
timeless statement, ". And he was hated,
even by his own people. I see the hypocrisy of the forefathers and I see the
blindness of a people who have no right to not understand. What can we do to
see that this never happens again. He felt, as
Malcolm did, that it was their right as an oppressed people and it wasn’t such a
questionable idea then as it became 200 years later when Malcolm reiterated it. However, in 1776, when they
had been penned, said oppressors were in the form of kings, parliaments, and
armies located across an ocean. He was mowing his
lawn across the street. ” In the
1960’s in places like Alabama and the Carolinas, these words resounded truer, from
the streets of black neighborhoods and from the actions of the likes of Dr. His ideals were not any more radical than
the Declaration of Independence, yet his were not welcomed as warmly as the ideals
of the founding fathers. The nation who once sought freedom from baseless oppression thought to
be ridiculous and unnecessary was now the oppressor of a people with different
backgrounds who wanted nothing more than their fair share, or in some cases, their
America. He was
making an unnecessary stir and he was killed in 1969. He
was not wrong and it is a tragedy that he was murdered, because I do believe that
he was on the verge of reforming society.
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