Justice

             Many people believe that peace will prevail in times of justice, and I believe this can happen only if justice is carried out the way it is meant to be, in the act of fairness and the principal of moral rightness. For example, in the United States of America our society has gone through times of unjust and immoral acts of racism permitted by the government because it was seen as morally right. The majority of the white community believed that because racism was permitted by law, and believed that it was just and constitutional. However, laws that govern a society don't always equate to what is just. If justice was used according to its meaning, immoral laws that violate human rights would have never existed. The majority of whites, during the era of a highly racist America dominated by views of white supremacy, supported segregation and allowed the government to separate different races, classes, and ethnic groups, such as in school, housing, public transportation, and public and commercial facilities. Discriminatory laws against African Americans and other minorities living in America was an unnecessary struggle. In the face of moral dilemma, what options do a group of people have in a society that accepts and permits acts of racism by law? I believe human rights activists, like Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. who were deeply affected by racism and discrimination, had no choice but to resist injustices conflicting with their human rights and moral beliefs, and thus, diverted to options that would bring about change. These options included peaceful protests, suffering for their views, and persistence in the fight for their cause.
             In an era where slavery and racism were so widely accepted by the government and its people, Henry David Thoreau and the Transcendentalists; a group of writers that "believed in something that transcended the limits of sensory experience"; strongly opposed slavery and sp...

More Essays:

APA     MLA     Chicago
Justice. (1969, December 31). In MegaEssays.com. Retrieved 11:25, March 29, 2024, from https://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/8219.html