The civil rights movement in America was a time in which Blacks and other minorities started actively demonstrating that they were equal to the white people in this country and it was their rights as human beings to have more independence and more equal rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a major figure in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. This leader had different ideas on what he thought would be the best way for blacks to get equality. King proclaimed a nonviolent, noncompliant philosophy similar to that of Gandhi in the achievement of Indian independence from the British earlier in the century. He also believed that blacks should try to find similarities between them and the white community.
Their legacy of living in a world free of segregation is still alive. Although Martin Luther King and Malcom X greatly influential civil rights activists and discussed the same issue about slavery, they used different methoeds of achieving the idea about equality and freedom. There are many differences
He took action to help improve equality amongst the nation. The people of the nation should do as Lincoln did. If you want change to come about to better living conditions then you have to take action. Even though everybody didn’t agree with what Lincoln was trying to do, he still did what he could to protect the people’s human rights and property rights. Throughout Lincoln’s approach to bring about equality, he did what he thought was right and he never changed what he believed based on what everyone else thought.
and Malcolm X were not to be meant that they didn’t’ fight for the same thing. They both wanted justice and they both wanted equality, but approached them in different ways. Martin Luther King Jr. talked in a more educated and a more of a difficult not everyday language. Malcolm X spoke in a more educated, but yet “street smart talk” to where the people who follow him understand him more clearly. Both speeches done by the two were very influential and both had the same goal.
King and Malcolm kept a perfect balance while they were alive. King urged protesters to remain peaceful while Malcolm stirred up protesters into violence. Together they kept African Americans seeking justice from becoming “do-nothings” or violent revolutionaries. Eventually King and Malcolm might have converged and joined together to attempt to reach their common goal. Malcolm once expressed to King’s wife an interest in joining the nonviolent movement.
He suggests that evil has an instrumental value in developing human virtues, he believes that sins are necessary many good things would be taken away if God permitted no evil to exist, ‘for fire would not be generated if air was corrupted’ therefore evil has some sort of good. For Aquinas God is good and knows about evil in the world however does not predetermine it. The world is not perfect but it is the best it can possibly be, God can still be omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient and still
Mark Vinogradov Martin Luther King Jr Q1. According to Dr. King, direct action is a non violent protest, or any other type of action that will create tension in the community and dramatize the issue that was disregarded by the community. After a successful direct action, the community (local government) would accept negotiating those issues and both parties would come to a solution which would resolve the conflict. Q2. Just law is the moral law of God, or better yet, humanity.
- Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. What were Martin Luther King aims in life? * He wanted White and Black people to be equal and to have the same rights. * He aimed for peace and equality between the two races in the US.
He never went around proclaiming how great he was or what everyone else needed to do, he just told everyone what he believed. And this cause that he believed in inspired others to believe in the same cause and they made it their own. He got his values from his faith. His faith commanded him to love everyone. He adopted a nonviolent approach and was willing to defy laws created by man that he felt were inconsistent with the laws of a higher authority.
“Civil rights” are rights that should belong to all of the citizens of the country. The civil rights movement in the 1960s focused mainly on equal rights for African-Americans. Dr. King worked to make things equal for people regardless of their race, or color of their skin. Dr. King was a minister. He made many speeches and he gave sermons in his church about what was and was not fair.