On Fighting Against Injustice Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913–2005) once said‚ “It is better to protest than to accept injustice.” Rosa Parks fought for equal rights in the United States and is a recognizable figure in the civil rights movement. It is important to fight injustice because it prevents it from happening again‚ more attention should be brought to these issues‚ and if action is not taken against injustice‚ it can cause harm to many groups of people. Fighting injustice is necessary
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Black ex-slaves found themselves with still limited options for what they could do‚ even though they were now free. They could not work in factors like white women‚ so some found work in hotels‚ and most found work in private homes‚ and even more worked in their own homes as laundresses. Many of these women although they were free still had no voice in politics and still feared physical abuse from their white employers. Many would often get into arguments over wages and long hours of work‚ which
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Summary of ’Panther Power and New Black Panther Party’ The given extracts from ’American Protest Literature’ written by Zoe Trodd and published in 2006 deal with the suppression and exploitation of black people in the USA and their protest against the white supremacy. Hip-Hop as an expression of protest referring to a whole culture which was oppressed and exploited over centuries became very popular in the United States during the late 20th century. One famous hip hop artist was Tupac Shakur
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Injustices and Subjugation Doris Lessing grew up in Southern Rhodesia‚ which is now Zimbabwe. Doris saw the injustices and racial inequality that the native Africans were put through. She wrote the story “No Witchcraft for Sale‚” to implicitly tell the Imperial Europeans of their wrong doings. She could not come out and directly write her true message because she was a white woman in the 1950s. By analyzing the dialogue in “No Witchcraft for Sale‚” it is evident that native Africans were subjugated
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Rebelling against injustice is the duty that people need to do to bring justice. Bringing justice plays a huge part in The Crucible. The Crucible is a play about the Salem Witch Trials and how it started. One of the main reasons so many people hanged for witchcraft was the fear of authority. It is clear that the courts are unjust‚ but no one spoke out against it until the end of the play. In The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller expresses the theme of “Defiance becoming the duty of the people in the face of
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Acts of injustice are present everywhere worldwide‚ but those who fight for fairness can alter that. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee by Harper Lee‚ there are numerous examples of such a theme. Atticus’s influential grasp on justice led to a tiny victory for the future in his town of Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ a community infected by racism. Atticus has a strong understanding of justice‚ as evidenced by his pivotal actions in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. He took Tom Robinson’s court case because
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there must be injustice. Nothing can be gained without first sacrificing something. Justice is the same way. The sacrifice for justice takes form in peoples actions. Sometimes those actions can be considered unjust‚ but if they are necessary to obtain justice then they are justified. Brutus knew that having justice in Rome was the number one priority. He knew he could not let anything with the possibility to do harm and cause injustice to Rome thrive. Caesar was a potential injustice and Brutus
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Are innocent people safe in court? Many people are falsely accused of a crime they did not commit and punished for it. What leads to this injustice? It can be because people have pride‚ greed‚ and hypocrisy driving them against others. Reverend Parris from the The Crucible had all the previous factors when he dealt with the Salem Witch Trials. Parris had was a very greedy man. He let greed lead him to his malpractice as a reverend. When Reverend Hale was talking to John Proctor on why he did not
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"You Don’t Know What You Have Until It’s Gone" a common proverb used to express how people often take for granted the very things that deserve our gratitude the most. I‚ for one‚ can relate to that. I grew up in Bangladesh with a huge family‚ nurtured with love and care. Admittedly‚ I was spoiled in my childhood especially by my grandparents; I was given almost anything I asked for. However‚ that changed significantly when my parents and I moved to the United States. All of a sudden‚ there was no
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discussed the language used in the Declaration of Independence‚ and that used in the United States Constitution to describe the rights to which everyone is entitled. How do they differ and what greater conflict does this discrepancy represent? * ‘Our people are basically decent and caring‚ and our highest ideals are expressed in the Declaration of Independence‚ which says all of us have an equal right to “life liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness.”’ * The America that we “know is a country that
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