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Gandhi is probably the most well known non-violent protester of all times, followed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King's views on non-violence are all to clear in his I Have a Dream speech, where King said, "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence."...
Martin Luther King was one of the most important leaders of the American Civil Rights movement. His efforts towards the desegregation of busses in Montgomery, ending some segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, and the gains made through the Washington March of 1963 stand out as his main contributions....
Why is Martin Luther King jr. considered to be a significant figure of the 20th Century? Dr. Martin Luther King is considered by many to be a significant figure of the 20th century for a variety of reasons; because of what he achieved and the difficulties he overcame in attaining these achievemen...
Gandhi's philosophy of civil disobedience influenced leaders of civil rights groups around the world. Gandhi believed in a nonviolent approach to everything, but most important, independence. Gandhi did not want to fight back no matter what the British police did to the Indians. He wouldn't fight...
I think a heroe is an ordinary person who has done something to change the way people think about the world or is not afraid to be punisched for their beliefs. It is someone who has ideas that could make life better for another human in any way and has the courage to act on these ideas. Heroe should...
Try to picture this scene: your favorite movie stare is caught with drugs on his person after being stopped by the police. Before even being take to trial, your celebrity is treated as if he didn't do a thing. The trial comes around and because of his status as an actor the charges are ...
The quest for equality by black Americans played a central role in the struggle for civil rights in the postwar era. Stemming from an effort dating back to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the black movement had gained more momentum by the mid-twentieth century. African Americans continued t...
During the 1950s and 1960s major changes were taking place for black Americans across the United States. Riots, mass demonstrations, Civil Right\'s laws, voting laws and an end to segregation, were seeking to improve the quality of life for blacks in both the industrial north and the deeply segregat...
?Letter From a Birmingham Jail? by Martin Luther KingWhile confined in a Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King wrote a gratifying letter of response to a published criticism by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama. In his letter, King eloquently explains the injustice of ?the evil system of seg...
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.Martin Luther King, Jr., The Tru...
Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and a leader of nonviolent movements to free India from Britain's rule. He accomplished this and many other things in his life that made a big impact on history as we know it.The Indians wanted their independence from Britain because they were being treated very unfairly...
The very first thing we need to do as a nation and as individual members of society is to confront our past...we need to recognize it for what it was and is and not explain away, excuse it, or justify it. Having done that, we should make a good faith effort to turn our history around so that we can ...