To live outside of that cave we would rediscover our values, question our actions in our everyday lives and to understand where we come from and where we were going. ... If the Declaration of Independence is altered and our rights of free will are dictated to us by the government. ... Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration in the belief of higher power. ...
In my own opinion I believe the answer to this question is no. ... The long-standing questions that accompany civil disobedience are when is civil disobedience justified, why should you be disobedient, and what actions are morally right during civil disobedience? ... Martin Luther King, Jr., Van Dusen, and Hobbes, express their views on this subject matter and propose different answers to these questions by using different rhetorical methods. ... Van Dusen claims that the Declaration of Independence only supports civil disobedience under limited circumstances. ...
His aim was to empower black people by uniting them under the roof of Black Nationalism, which fostered independence and self-determination instead of a mere acceptance by and an integration into the dominant society. ... I think this was a crucial point of the conflict, and had to be understood as a declaration of war by the political establishment. ... Edgar Hoover, then Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, declared in 1969 that "the Black Panther Party, without question, represents the greatest threat to [the] internal security of the country " (Simmons, Patton 2012). ...
King shows what he knows about all the historical figures had established in the past by mentioning the Declaration of Independence. ... It's heartbreaking to hear a little girl, who doesn't know better about the society to ask such question. ...
