Muhammad Ali's Conflict Theory

During the time of the Vietnam War the United States Army enforced the draft. Any male of age eighteen to twenty five were required to register with United States Army. Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army forces(1). If he would 've went to the war he may have died and not become one of the best heavyweight boxers of the world.

Free-soilers believed that slavery was unfair competition to white farmers in the south and so in a strange way, were against slavery but hated the

Oscar Wilde said “selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” That said, the Puritans were a very religious group of people who wished to escape religious persecution in order to spread their beliefs to others. Their hatred and enmity of both the church was so great they could no longer stay in England. In their point of view, there was nothing wrong with what they did at all. Their reason for leaving was religious freedom, but their way of thinking was mean and inconsiderate.

Bolo rejected the political system of oppressing the Baptist Faith. He decided to become a leader in spite of Ivan Morton’s inability to fight for his people. Taking into account Bolo’s profession of fighting, it is fair to assume that Bolo was a somewhat belligerent man before he decided to take on a leadership position. That being said, his belligerence only strengthened as he went about seeking equality for his church. Justice denied reinforced Bolo’s desire to be a leader to ensure that his religion would be seen as equal to the Catholics and Anglicans.

Throughout the first paragraph of King’s speech, he used emotional diction with words such as struggle, poverty, and poor to prove that the war in Vietnam was bringing down the American’s and their families fighting overseas. King proved this partly with the quote, “America would never invest the necessary funds… in the rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued…” (King, Beyond, 9). King was establishing his point that America was more troubled about healing and adjusting other countries, but would never invest the same in their own country. He was in the process of proving that it wasn 't a money issue in America, but an equality issue.

His urgency to join came from his feeling that the country “no longer [had] any room for hope” and could only find peace by fighting (Henry 2). The sense of no hope creates a want among those at the convention to join the war to try and take back what they came to America to find. Many found this to be a very strong point as to why they needed to fight for their freedom. Henry’s speech is generally seen as the most persuasive, however, some may argue that Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is the most persuasive because of his emphasis on having tried everything to gain the freedoms they wanted under the King’s ruling, but have failed. Jefferson mentioned how the colonists “Petitioned for Redress in the repeated Injury” against England (Jefferson 3).

Both the federal government and the state governments of Colorado and West Virginia did not want unions to form, because they viewed that as a form of socialism, or even worse, communism. This can be seen when the preacher at the Free Church in the movie begins talking about in his sermon the evils of unions, because it will bring socialism, which is the Devil’s work. Violence is also an important tactic used by the government to strike fear into the union. In Ludlow, both the military and the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency were brought into to protect strikebreakers that were brought in, as well as try to provoke violence by the union that would turn public attitude against the union. While several people eventually died because of violence, companies would eventually let workers unionize, and gave them more compensation than they had before, even though it may have been

Elijah Muhammad who is very passionate about the Nation of Islam assumes that the African Americans are Allah’s masterpieces whereas the white people are devils and need to be completely demolished (Baldwin 72). Baldwin’s views are the complete opposite and does not believe the white’s are mischievous humans that need to be exterminated, instead the African Americans should take this rage and utilize it as ambition to fight for freedom the correct way, which is humanity. Baldwin has bad but also has many good relationships with whites, he understands that this will have no effect based on the information Elijah brainwashed his followers with. Baldwin realizes that instilling this distaste will only push the blacks further away from achieving freedom.

He opposed the government by looking for fair laws for all people regardless of race. By participating in protests and giving speeches for non-violent civil disobedience he risked his own freedom and ultimately his life. Both figures represent resistance to the government and defiance to certain laws that even though accepted by many, are deemed unjust

Kaepernick believes that the flag does not represent that for his people. Kaepernick states the reason why he is so willing to sit is because of all the police brutality throughout the Caucasian, Hispanic, and African American community. Kaepernick said “I am not going to stand up and show pride for a country that oppresses black people, and people of color.

He opposed the war so much that, even though he was drafted, he opted not to go to war and protested against it. When Ali did this, he angered a lot of people. Colin Kaepernick is an NFL quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. Colin helped lead his team to the Superbowl against the Baltimore Ravens, something the 49ers have not done since the 1990s. He has since not been as good as he was before because of injuries.

Ali, citing the Koran, refused to be inducted due to his religious beliefs. He also made it known that he was not going to go and fight the “white man’s war” when

Theodore believed that the Natives could’ve just assimilated into America’s culture and they 'd be fine. The prosecution then showed that Theodore had a religious bias to this case, which made his statement feel as if they had less weight on the case. They also proved that Van Buren was the president during The Trail of Tears, not

Lincoln went on to say in his address: “Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others”. Abraham Lincoln may not have addressed the Declaration of Independence in his Lyceum Address but in referring to the laws and to the U.S. Constitution, he explains that without following these laws the Declaration of Independence was for nothing and means

Hudgins believed in the biblical justification for the inferiority of African Americans. This idea was that African Americans were descendants of Ham and therefore were cursed like Ham to a life of serving the white race. This meant that African Americans were not pure in the way Hudgins felt Christian had to be for salvation, and mingling with African Americans could lead towards white Christians becoming impure. This reasoning, mixed with strong feelings from his congregation, is why Hudgins upheld the resolution created by his lay leadership, that denied people of other races from worshiping at First Baptist