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How can we expect to move forward if we are still stuck in the past, not only admitting to having participated in our dark past, but also wearing our past mistakes and discrimination on our sleeves as it were a badge of honor. It has long been said that if we cannot learn from our past, then we are doomed to repeat. But what if we refuse to acknowledge our past? How can we move forward if we are too comfortable living in the past?
Oppression, though it has been present throughout the world at various points in time, ultimately fails as the oppressed rise against their oppressors. We have seen the tragedy of violence against humanity, and yet we are unable and unwilling to learn from man's past mistakes. How many will have to suffer before it is too late?
You are correct to point out the difference between just and unjust laws. Law should be equally followed and enforced. It is law for all or none at all. How far will we go before we realize the inequality and unfairness of our actions? Just laws are agreed to be all, socially, contractually, and morally. How can we preach love and acceptance for all, if we cannot accept everyone as...
How long must we stand aside and do nothing before we realize that it not the color of our skin that separates us, put the ideologies instilled within us that create these differences. We cannot try to hide behind our ideologies any longer. We cannot afford to. How can we create progress if we are in an infinite state of regress?
In your quest for equality, I implore you not to seek change through extremism, rather to create steps for gradual, and eventual, acceptance of all. It is futile to sit and wait for a change to occur and I must applaud you determinate and resolve to try and create change through non-violent means, but I fear that non-violence will create fear-inspired tension which may in turn create a violent uprising.
May your cause be fruitful and may your efforts be not without avail. Keep in mind the words of Aristotle on your quest, "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
With Regards,
A concern citizen
Bad Experience With a Priest: comparison of the Catholicism aspects in Scott's Ivanhoe and Twain's a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court In reading Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, one cannot deny that the blame for the collapse of Hank's new civilization falls on the Church. Throughout the novel, Twain paints a negative image of the Church and its priests. This negative image can also be found
He questions whether he should try to clear the court of corruption or just give up and end his life now. It is this emotional doubt that drives Hamlet to act deranged at times, but he overcomes it, and almost manages to answer the difficult questions posed in his life. In Act V, when calm returns, Hamlet repents his behavior (V, ii, 75-78) (Lidz, 164). In Lidz's book Freud is
But that doesn't really change the history or the reality of any event. Emancipation should have been our first concern but fortunately it was not even one of the main concerns let alone the first one. Lincoln along with other political heavyweights were more interested in appeasing the South and various efforts were made to please the Southern elite since secession was an imminent possibility. So for various political and
Meanwhile, Melmotte introduces Marie into the matrimonial arena at an extravagant ball for which, in hope of favors that will come, he gains the patronage of several duchesses and other regal individuals. Marie, believed to be the heiress of millions, has many highly placed but poor young noblemen asking for her hand in marriage. She falls in love with Sir Felix Carbury, who is the most shady of them all.
Furthermore the rhetoric here is rich in symbolism. Dr. King draws parallels between the response of violence to his peaceful protests and other great personalities whose commitment to justice, truth, and love also had unintended and unfortunate consequences. Personalities like Socrates and Jesus, for example, could not be expected to deny their truth for fear of public reaction. Dr. King makes this argument even stronger by also drawing the parallel
Colonel Brandon is a quiet and reserved man who loves Marianne. Of course the question arises as to why Brandon did not reveal Willoughby's character: unlike the intemperate Marianne, Brandon shows too much reserve. Willoughby, despite his faults, is attractive because of his passionate love of sentimental verse, but Marianne must learn to look beneath the surface of both her two suitors. This is made difficult by Brandon's reserve