Martin Luther King: Non-Conformity Or A Nonconformist?

In order to make progress from the oppression upon the black community, Douglass advocates for people to take a stand on the struggle for freedom. Douglass implies that the people will have to fight for freedom by voicing their opinions. Douglass incorporates examples from slaves in other places that have overcome their oppressors in hopes of making it more evident that, indeed, there is a way out of oppression. The idea is that it must be done so by action and not merely by letting others take it upon them . It will not be an easy task, but it has to start off by recognizing that there is a problem.

As a result of the caste system, lower class people face much more obstacles than people living in the higher class. Some obstacles include, famine, poverty, and segregation. Untouchables are people born into a group that is considered so unclean that if fell outside the caste system altogether. Ashok Khade, a boy who was born an untouchable has faced some of these obstacles. Authors Polgreen and Kumar states, “At school, he sat on the floor in a part of the classroom that was built a step lower than the rest.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” In life, one cannot back down once they are faced with adversity. There is no better statement than King’s that relays the message of upholding your beliefs. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the theme of standing up for what you believe in is developed through Atticus Finch, Calpurnia, and Scout Finch.

Intelligence and Defiance “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change”. (Albert Einstein) In “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr talks about how everyone is equal by wearing handicaps. In the novella Anthem technological advancement is planned and the meaning of individuality is forbidden.

In the year 1963 Martin Luther King was imprisoned for peacefully marching in a parade as a non-violent campaign against segregation. When Martin Luther King was arrested by police and sent to Birmingham Jail, a letter written by the clergymen that was directed towards him about why his march was wrong. In response to the letter by the clergymen, Martin Luther King wrote his own letter in response to the Clergymen’s to persuade them into believing that their reasons for putting him in jail were wrong by successfully using Parallelism, deductive reasoning, and alliteration. King uses his rhetorical devices to appeal to the ethos, logos, and pathos of the clergymen to further strengthen his claim. Martin Luther King effectively appeals to the emotion of the clergymen with his usage of parallelism, which repeats the structure and adds great emphasis.

Disobedience is an essential characteristic in this world because without it, no social progress is made. Disobedience can be viewed in a very complex manner because it is in some cases, an unhonorable and disgraceful characteristic, however, Wilde describes disobedience as an honorable attribute for someone to have when social progress is made.. Disobedience should not only be compelled, it should be mandatory. According to Wilde, disobedience is a beneficial characteristic for a person to have, a necessary evil, without it social progression cannot occur. “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue.”

In this article entitled "Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem" from “obedience of authority”, the German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist “Erich Seligmann Fromm” argues that the possibility of mankind destroying itself through obedience is more common than what most would believe (Fromm 259). It obviously clear that obedience and disobedience nowadays are ones of the hottest topics that have their own social consequences. While Obedience is the practical acceptance of the authority and the will of God, disobedience is a cause of repletion and distrust of god. In this article, “Fromm” insists that disobedience is necessary and is a must since it can be evident throughout

Civil Disobedience and its Significance Dr. Martin Luther King’s, “Letter From Birmingham Jail” was addressing to several clergymen his reasoning behind civil disobedience. Dr. King discussed just and unjust laws, and explains his thesis- justice upholds the dignity of the human spirit, while injustice works against it. Dr. King does, in fact, make a convincing argument for civil disobedience because he gives significant criteria by which civil disobedience can and will defeat unjust laws. Dr. King first explains that nonviolent direct action, or civil disobedience, is required to create crisis and confront the main issue at hand. Throughout his preaching of the mistreatment of African Americans in the south, Dr. King drew attention to the

Before America was all one for independence. While people fought in many conflicts and battles to become free and independent states. Independence is one of the main concepts in the reason, which occurred during the American Revolution. The concepts of age of reason were well used during this time and it influenced historical events within the establishment of the United States. The four well known texts, “The Crisis”, The Speech in the Virginia Convection”, “The Declaration of Independence”, and “The Constitution”, were all influenced by characteristics from the Age of Reason.

In the month of April in 1906, the realization that the nation was growing faster than the government was all to real (okayfey). Monopoles were influencing Americans negatively and the federal and State powers could do nothing about it. The rich had control of almost all the wealth in the United States, and the middle class was not happy about it. They were in a cage match that was only going to end in bloodshed and an unsettled dispute. That being said, President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt was left between all of this to be the intermediary.