Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Brotherhood

“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.” Malcolm X. The Novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor is a story about a black family in the 1930s during a time of segregation and a country that beats down black people and holds them back. The Logans are courageous because they don’t let their skin color hold them down by what other people think. A wise man once said, “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other
They have gone through the hard times like Mama loses her job and Papa breaking his leg in the incident. One thing that the Logan children have endured that was rather funny and that showed courage was the bus incident. They left school, “borrowed” some tools from the school shed and started to dig a trench in the road a mile or so from the school during lunchtime. They did not get caught from what they did. That showed courage because they left school, made a hole, came back and didn’t get caught. Then later the bus got stuck.
In the poem, “Friends in the Klan” by Marilyn Nelson, the narrator tells the story of a courageous professor who stood up to injustice and the KKK. One thing that was very courageous, that the professor did was stay at his house, even though the KKK said that they would kill him or something else that is terrible. He knew that the KKK were cowards because they wore clothes that did not reveal their identity since some of them were teachers, businessmen which didn’t want fellow workers or students and their parents to see them. The professor shows courage because he knows that the KKK are