Southern Pride: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Was there a purpose behind King's honorable humbleness and humility to those who so rudely besmirched his attempts at equality? To Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hostility and spite were not ways of achieving his goals for equality. Instead of rashness a...
By making the statement "it was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither" (Twain 55), Huck realizes that Jim-although an African American, runaway slave, and criminal-is a person, too. ...
After seeing the worry Jim endured looking for Huck, he decides to apologize, "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger...I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd 'a' knowed it would make him feel that way " (Twain 86). ...
