Martin Luther King Jr Response

Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King Jr. Henry David Thoreau. All household names, but why? As Americans, we know these people for how they stood up to the government and to society in times of wrongdoings. Whether directly affected by the problems or not, famous American rebels choose to fight for what they feel is truly right in their hearts- in their souls. In times of extremity, the only way to argue and be respected is to do it respectfully and peacefully. In a free society, peaceful resistance positively impacts changing the viewpoints of citizens as well as the government, and can efficiently lead to a solution that satisfies the general majority. In Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience,’ he uses slavery as an example, and speaks of his own protests in which he spent time in jail and refused to pay taxes. Rather than being violent and angry, Thoreau knew that his silence and patience was enough to be noticed. Martin Luther King Jr. learned from such protests, and parallels this through his own slavery rebellions. The Montgomery Bus Boycott is a perfect example. When

The ‘LIVESMATTER’ campaign demonstrates the many sides to an argument which society hasn’t been able to let go of. ‘BLACKLIVESMATTER,’ a movement that has swept the nation over the past few years, is commonly misunderstood as an elite African American movement. What the movement actually is, however, is a protest that means that black lives matter too, along with white lives. Everyone matters, and should matter equally- it’s a constitutional right. Though this movement has sparked both positive and negative attention, it is attempting to adjust society into becoming completely equal. Just as Rosa Parks and MLK Jr. did, the current campaign serves to educate citizens and the government on what is wrong, and to then find proper solutions to the dilemmas,