Social Unjust Cause and Effect Paragraph How can the color of someone's skin, rely on who they are and how they should be treated? ... Martin Luther King states, "An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the Moral Law." In society, an example of a social unjust that is of the past and present is racism. ... Segregation was a very common thing, and it was also an unjust law. America had made a law saying that all public facilities would be separated, one marked "white" and the other marked "colored." ...

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With the apartheid being put into force in 1948, racial discrimination laws came about. This included the law that whites could not marry nonwhites. Therefore, the law is forbidding two people to marry if they are of opposite color. ... Only the Africans had to go by the unjust laws, and face harsh punishment if they laws were to be broken. ... The citizens overcame the harsh laws, and rebuilt their lives. ...

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The case of Plessy v. Ferguson involved a man named Homer Plessy. He was considered colored, though he had 1/8 "black blood" and 7/8 "white blood." He tried to sit on the "white" train in Louisiana, and got kicked out and arrested for it. According to Louisiana state law, it was illegal. He disagree...

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Since the amendments weren't enforced the majority of the time there were ways for racist southerners to work around the law making it impossible for Blacks to put their new rights into action. ... They bent the laws to work in their favor and were free to terrorize, hang, shoot, and rape slaves anyway they felt like. ... There are ground breakers such as Frederick Douglass, Samuel Gompers, Anthony Comstock, etc. in every generation that give new ideals and forms of thinking; they challenge norms and unjust laws. ... This is why Americans believed in nativism and created restrictions an...

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In the writing done by Thomas Paine he stresses the fact that it is unjust to live under the kings rule, so far away from the motherland. ... "Violation of the laws of Nature and of Nation and in defiance of all the tender feelings of humanity, brought hither to be like Beasts of Burden" this quote was taken from Petition to the Massachusetts General Assembly, this is different than all the other selections because Hall is not talking about the British in the writing. ...

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After 1820 thousands of British colonists arrived in South Africa, and they demanded that English law be imposed. ... With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized. ... Non-compliance with the race laws was dealt with harshly. ... In 1953, the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act were passed, which empowered the government to declare stringent states of emergency and increased penalties for protesting against or supporting the repeal of a law. ... Wielding the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the white regi...

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Throughout his life, King dedicated so much time to the civil rights movement because of the many limits placed on him by Jim Crow Laws as he was growing up as well as the many influences of both people and religion throughout his life. ... During his childhood, King was faced with many hardships as a result of the segregation laws in his area. ... His parents told their son that all their live blacks suffered trough many unjust situations because of the racist whites. ... In November of 1956, the Supreme Court was greatly influenced by all the civil rights fighters and made the decision that ...

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During his childhood, King was faced with many hardships due to the segregation laws in his area. ... Martin Luther King's parents told their son that all their lives blacks suffered through many unjust situations because of the racist whites. ... In November of 1956, the Supreme Court was greatly influenced by all the civil rights fighters and made the decision that previously standing segregation laws in Alabama were unconstitutional. ... Although in reality, not all racial discrimination stopped with the segregation laws, conditions could only improve from that point, which was exac...

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Justice is defined as the upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law; the principle of moral rightness. I will use the principles of Kant, Bentham/Mill, and Plato to help show why some particular sexist and racist actions are wrong or unjust. ... Supreme Court ruled that the segregation law was unconstitutional and the Montgomery buses were integrated. ...

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Although it was not against the law for blacks to vote in the south, blacks were just not able to cross the barriers that the white man put in his way. ... Although the Till case was a hugely publicized event in 1955, and many people, especially people from the north, believed that the Till case had been unjust, the federal officials in Washington were not going to stand up and speak their opinions and try to make a change. ... Eisenhower believed that the racial question in the United States was emotional rather than rational, and that "arbitrary law" could not be strong enough to solve it ...

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Racial Profiling: "Its Time to Put an End to this Unjust Practice" It has happened to actors such as Wesley Snipes, Will Smith, Blair Underwood and LeVar Burton. ... It would seem that skin color alone may very well make you a suspect in America, and more likely to be stopped by our law enforcement personnel. ... But law enforcement tactics remain concentrated in the inner city, continuing to feed the perception that drug dealers and users are black. ... The practice of profiling has "helped breed a deeply corrosive mistrust of law enforcement (Shipler...

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He was unjustly charged with the rape of the Mayella Ewell. ... It seemed the whole town knew and agreed that the case against Tom was an unjust one, though it was know that a black man would not win a case filed by a white woman in a court of law - even if most people agreed that he was innocent. ...

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Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. ... "In the covenant of marriage, she is becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master – the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty and to administer chastisement.... Women's rights weren't the only unjust actions of the government. ...

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Unfortunately, one's outer appearance defines what people think of them, and this generates many disputes among people.Men,women, and children of all orientations, races, ethnicities and backgrounds are subject to unjust discrimination everyday of their lives;therefore, a solution must be found before it destroys more lives. ... As known, police and the law should play justice and equality in the society, but even they're being injustice to African/American people, by not treating them equally and providing them with security as provided to others. ...

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Even the most despicable of characters can be worthy of sympathy. Sympathy is defined as the feeling of pity for a person. One can only receive sympathy if they have been plagued with despair and misfortune. In a novel such as To Kill a Mockingbird, it is hard to sympathize with any characters due t...

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In spite of the fact that there are laws that say blacks are no longer second class citizens, they are still treated differently than their white counterparts. ... The speaker seems to feel as though America's potential to be a great country has been wasted in an unjust treatment of its black citizens. ...

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Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality educat...

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The reintegration of slaves, African Americans, had failed and certain laws were set up in order to maintain the divisions between black and white. Two elements from the time of Reconstruction and Post- Reconstruction were the so called Jim Crow Laws meant to segregate Whites from Blacks and the Order of the Ku Klux Klan, which maintained white supremacy through terror. ...

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In the stories "Raymond's Run" and "Gorilla My Love," Toni Cade Bambara, writes about unusual heroines - both called Hazel. However the character in "Raymond's Run," is known as and is referred to as Squeaky, mainly because of her voice, and because of the way that she is presented. To the reader, i...

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