The Pros And Cons Of Martin Luther King

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The piece that I had just quoted was from the first amendment. Ever since the establishment of the United States of America, equality and prosperity has always been something that’s idolized by other countries. However, I can attest to that. If you look over all of the commercialism and false promises that are given, then you could easily see how corrupt and backwards our society actually is.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws,” Nobel peace prize winner

Martin Luther King was a leader in his community just like Ghandi in the sense that he believed that civil disobedience was the key to helping created equality for African Americans that resided within the southern states. King believed that the only way for people to realize what he was fighting for was to do something about it, not just sit back and wait for the problem to resolve itself. King insisted that the best way to gain attention to his cause was to take part in non-violent protests and without the use of force. Like they say sometimes the best way to kill your enemy is with kindness. It’s heroes like Martin Luther King that helped shape America into at least a better place for not only those of present day, but those who honestly that matter most which are the generations of the

Almost whenever I think about different ways through history people have protested peacefully, the freedom riders always come to mind. The start of the Freedom Riders began on May 4, 1961. There were seven African American people and six white people on one single bus. The name of the company of the bus that the protestors would be riding on was called Greyhound. Their mission was to ride through different southern states like Virginia, Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, New Orleans, and Louisiana. The place where the freedom riders initially began their ride was Washington D.C and rode all the down south to protest against segregation peacefully. They also broke the laws of segregation. The laws that they broke were called the Jim Crow Laws. On the freedom rider’s bus, black people would go to the white section of the bus and use white people’s drinking fountains. It was also the opposite way for white people that were Civil Rights Activists. They protested by using nonviolence. It was not an easy task because they get severely beaten by angry mobs of