Unfairness: Its Historical Impact and Repercussions

Mashael AlQuraishi

January 8, 2015

Connecting the Dots: Unfairness

As Abraham Lincoln once said, " These men ask for just the same thing: fairness, and fairness only. This is, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have." In revolutions there have been many inequalities within society that were based primarily on factors such as social class, status and gender. Many of these people continuously struggle to adjust to their present generation, also many have suffered somewhat difficult times such as reformations and dreadful wars. Most of these citizens start such activities as a result of their rights being taken from them ruthlessly. Unfairness has been shown thru our history and the results of it lead to anger, hatred, and rebelling

During the reformation era, the Catholic Church was abusing their power and started to issue taxation. While these taxes were used to fund most of the Renaissance artist’s projects. This is a strong example of unfairness where the church and its leaders put these awful commands on these poor peasants. This revolted Luther because he believed that salvation was not achieved by good works or indulgences but by faith alone. The ideology that every individual is equal in the eyes of God and that the pope is not superior to these individuals. Most of the population felt these beliefs spoke in their favor and therefore demanded freedom from their overlords, which caused severe consequences. As a result, leaders and popes tried to stop Martin and his message, since it opposed the Church’s teachings. In the end, they unfairly took away his privilege of

Africa was known for its land of richness, full of its right elements to have the right resources, education, and state of order. European nations looked for and wanted raw materials, and saw Africa as the perfect foundation. Then the European nations have decided to colonize and attack parts of Africa then divide it with each other. After ruling and taking charge of these areas they have not stopped, but rather their greed for more is just starting. Africans have tried more than once to stop these attacks, but nothing changed. In the end, after all of these attacks the Africans lost their freedom and land. This is a very obvious case of unfairness where the European nations decided to rule a land and take all their resources that do not belong to them in the first