Letter From Birmingham Jail Analysis
Barrack Obama’s speech “A More Perfect Union” and Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” I think, has the same point of view. America has done the unthinkable and achieved the impossible in the past. However, times have not been as good as they were in the past, but in Obama’s speech strongly believe that Americans are ready to get up and brush themselves off. Everyone will do anything to help fix the nation and return to be the most powerful nation in the world. In addition, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written by Martin Luther King's Jr. was a letter that appeared in the Birmingham newspaper. King drafted a document that would mark the turning point of the Civil Rights movement and provide enduring inspiration to the struggle
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In addition, the hope of a more perfect union is close to reality if people would learn to stand up for what they believe in.
Another way to have more equality and unity in this world is having confidence to stick up what they believe in. In King’s letter he mentioned, "One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence" (King 278). King is insisting that people must fight for what they believe in and truly depict the struggle to achieve equal human rights. King also mentioned that, "We know through painful experiences that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed" (King 292). Basically, King is saying that the difficult challenges in our all brought within us and that people creates their own future. Although both Obama’s and King’s used very powerful and intellectual words to encourage people that the world can be a better place. I believe that Obama’s words are more
In addition, the hope of a more perfect union is close to reality if people would learn to stand up for what they believe in.
Another way to have more equality and unity in this world is having confidence to stick up what they believe in. In King’s letter he mentioned, "One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence" (King 278). King is insisting that people must fight for what they believe in and truly depict the struggle to achieve equal human rights. King also mentioned that, "We know through painful experiences that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed" (King 292). Basically, King is saying that the difficult challenges in our all brought within us and that people creates their own future. Although both Obama’s and King’s used very powerful and intellectual words to encourage people that the world can be a better place. I believe that Obama’s words are more