Words Don't Hurt as Much as Actions Sometimes

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As children grow up, adults tell them a saying of sticks and stones that everyone knows. However sometimes there are situations in which actions can provide more of an impact than words. Throughout history there have been instances where actions have done what words could not, it allows people of all ethnicities and ages to understand the meaning, it also can adjust ones views on a certain thing, and in order to act, one most have greater drive than using words; on the other hand, sometimes word can do what actions cannot in allowing individuals to let their thoughts out in hopes of persuading others. Something that actions can provide better than words is to allow people to understand ones meaning behind an idea. In Elie Wiesel's speech 'Perils of indifference', it is said, "Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know -- that they, too, would remember, and bear witness" (par. 2). In this quote, it is displayed that even though Wiesel could not understand the language of the American soldiers, Wiesel understood what was done and the emotion behind that can carry meaning that words never can. Since Wiesel is talking in a third person perspective about the experiences that Elie went through, and the age that Wiesel was did not hinder the understanding. Wiesel discusses the affects that indifference can do to an individual: "And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten" (par. 12). When this is said it shows that even though there can be positive understanding of actions, there can also be a negative context to certain actions as well. Something that Wiesel tries to portray is that whenever there is an action, there can be positive and negative consequences. On the other hand, as Martin Luther King
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