Reading the book of David Howard-Pitney’s Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Malcolm X‚ and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s we can deduce the situation in the United States during the sixties. The most important leaders of the Civil Rights movements were Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. They were the representatives of the Afro-American revolt against discrimination and racism. The two leaders shared the same goal but differed in their approaches. Martin Luther King was a moderate leader
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Martin Luther King JR was an activist who took part as a leader in the Civil Rights movement. This whole movement of his is emphasized on the idea that nonviolent actions be taken. Although he was a leader for the Civil Rights movement‚ he was a Baptist minister too which played a critical role in his movement. The whole idea of taking nonviolent actions was due to his Christian beliefs‚ and it’s demonstrated all throughout the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. In his letter‚ Martin writes to a clergyman
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Letter from Birmingham Jail is a letter written by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. while he was in jail for participating in peaceful protest against segregation. He wrote the letter in response to criticisms made by white clergymen. Dr. King’s goal of this letter was to draw attention to the injustice of segregation‚ and to defend his tactics for achieving justice. He uses a large number of rhetorical devices in his letter to reach his goal‚ including point of view‚ imagery‚ and rhetorical questions. He
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Gandhism In Our Times Samudra Biswas CIA III‚ 2ND EPS Regn No 1214415 Christ College Political Ideologies 231 Teacher Sindhuja Iyengar “On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget‚ that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds‚ but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.” ― Shashi Tharoor “I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause‚ but by non-participation
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gain India’s freedom from foreign control (Tammita-Delgoda 184-5). Gandhi was a strong believer in finding the truth in everything‚ and he opposed the efforts of prominent troops trying to control the Indians. When Gandhi applied the principles of nonviolence to foreign dominance‚ he helped India reclaimed its faith and courage to defy the power and strength of the British. Gandhi was essential to India obtaining independence from Britain. Mohandas Gandhi started his life in India and studied there
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According to the Dictionary Online (2013)‚ “Injustice is the violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or treatment.” Martin Luther King Jr. defined an unjust law in the Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)‚ “An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality
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Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)‚ Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)‚ Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)‚ the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)‚ and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council (Limbo‚ 159). With the principles of nonviolence as his tools‚ Lawson used the Nashville sit-in movement to help end segregation by mobilizing and inspiring the masses in the pursuit of greater racial equality. Owing to a fairly politically and religiously involved family‚ James Lawson was
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Salt March The Salt March‚ also mainly known as the Salt Satyagraha‚ began with the Dandi March on 12 March 1930‚ and was an important part of theIndian independence movement. It was a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly incolonial India‚ and triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement. This was the most significant organised challenge to British authority since the Non-cooperation movement of 1920–22‚ and directly followed the Purna
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Throughout history there has always been oppression‚ oppression of a certain subset of people‚ and through this oppression comes expression. These things are so strongly tied together because if a human is made to feel less of a human‚ then their human qualities are forced to find other forms to show themselves. Though this expression can sometimes become aggressive‚ and dangerous; ideally this expression should be peaceful‚ it should manifest itself as a form of nonviolent protest. Unfortunately
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have been waiting for all throughout time. King was the leader of the nonviolent civil rights movement. While incarcerated in Birmingham jail King wrote a letter to eight clergymen (priest or minister of a Christian church) to get them to join his nonviolence movement. King utilizes allusions‚ anaphora‚ and pathos to convey his disappointed yet hopeful tone to explain why a nonviolent movement is necessary and attempt to persuade people to join him. It is evident that King makes use of allusions to
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