" This quote as directed by the actress Anna Deavere Smith has a lot of meaning in it. What she is trying to explain and direct to the audience is that if this society doesn't wake up sooner or later racism will never end in fact it will keep increasing over the years, and if they eventually do wake up it's going to cause a lot of problems and the violence rate will get out of control. ...
He was quoted saying, "You don't integrate with a sinking ship.... After being imprisoned in Birmingham he wrote a now famous letter, in which he states "the purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that is will inevitably open the door to negotiation. ...
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham" as a response to eight clergymen who criticized his and the SCLC's nonviolent direct action against segregation in Birmingham. ... He distinguishes between just and unjust laws addressing the clergymen's anxiousness over the black man's "willingness to break laws" by quoting St. ...
King directed the moral laws to his audience to convince them that what the white men is doing is unjust. ... King does so by quoting from historical figures such as Socrates, and Thomas Jefferson. ... King quotes Thomas Jefferson, "that all men are created equal", regardless of color of skin. ...
Learning The Rules In the time of the Jim Crow South, the majority of white people displayed extreme ill will towards the black people. Race relations were not good between blacks and whites, and it was no secret. It was a time where black people were treated better than when they were slaves,...
In his speech entitled, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. strives to justify the desperate need for nonviolent direct action. ... Malcolm X was willing to cause death in order to bring about social change, as demonstrated in the following quote: And in my conclusion I repeat: We want no part of integration with this wicked race of devils. ...
