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Martin Luther King and the Right to Resistance as Expressed by Thoreau

injustice. Thoreau argues that the only obligation he has "is to do at any time what I think right." He expands on this thought, w...

The True Impact of the Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King is considered one of the greatest American leaders of all times. His accomplishments were indeed phenomenal....

Barack Obama and Dr. King and Continuing Hope

Luther King wrote a long and moving letter from his cell in the Birmingham, Alabama, jail. In 2007, Barack Obama gave a very movin...

"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King

This essay offers summation and analysis of Dr. King's famous letter. Three pages in length, no other sources are cited. ...

Analysis of "I Have a Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King

presenting a sensible argument. Burke proposes that rhetoric should be analyzed according to five crucial factors, which he refe...

Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson on Freedom

the slaves. Slavery was legal, but it was not right and it was not conducive to freedom. For King, freedom was about equality and ...

Power According to King James I and Martin Luther

In six pages James I's True Law of Free Monarchies speech is contrasted and compared with On Papal Power, Justification By Faith a...

Civil Disobedience, Martin Luther King, and Henry David Thoreau

gets. If anything Thoreau gives us an emotional warning, He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useles...

Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King on Peace

In five pages this paper examines the similarities and differences in the peace teachings and writings of Thoreau, Gandhi, and Kin...

Legal System, Civil Rights Movement, and the Nonviolent Social Ideals of Martin Luther King

was shortly afterwards involved in the cause begun by civil rights activist Rosa Parks when she refused to follow the citys laws m...

Moses and Martin Luther King Junior's Styles of Leadership Comparison

was always ready to rush to a city or scene to help demonstrate the power of nonviolence ("King," 2000). In March of 1963, a New Y...

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on Black Manhood

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

An Analysis of I Have a Dream

the "promissory note" that was made to each and every American when the Constitution was written (King, 1963). He and the group ha...

Western Culture and the Effects of Religion

In eight pages this paper discusses how Western culture has been affected by religion in a consideration of such powerful figures ...

Speech Analysis / King's 'I Have a Dream'

Dr. King does indeed work to build his credibility during his speech although it was probably not as necessary in his particular s...

M.L. King/Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Alabama because he was "invited here" and because of his "organizational ties" to the area (King). Statement of Understanding: H...

Martin Luther

was while he was there that he was able to earn a "baccalaureate and masters degrees in the shortest time allowed by university st...

Leadership: King and Obama

concerned about. But, he clearly was not a "good" leader in the sense that his leadership improved the condition of humanity. ...

Civil Rights Quest of African Americans

her peers. By reading her book, one can understand why the quest to achieve civil rights is and was important for African America...

Black Leaders Contrasting Analysis

This paper contains five pages and contrasts the racist positions of Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Jesse Jackson....

Let the Trumpet Sound by Stephen B. Oates

In four pages this research paper examines this powerful text on the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Five sour...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

Black Empowerment and Differing Approaches

In eight pages this essay discusses Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and W.E.B. Du Bois in a consideration to their different a...

Context and Language Issue / Language Changes Context

In twelve pages this research paper focuses upon the speeches by Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. in a co...

'I Have a Dream' Speech Analyzed III

needs that the I Have a Dream speech appealed to included a need for reassurance of worth and an informal need for roots. More sp...

1960s' America

In this paper that is comprised of brief essays the America of the 1960s is explored through such references as Martin Luther Kin...

King and Thoreau

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

Rhetoric in Letter from a Birmingham Jail by King

to; "two Catholics, a Rabbi, two Methodists, an Episcopalian, a Presbyterian, and a Baptist" (Seckrater, 2003). In relationshi...

Five American Thinkers and How They Employed the Declaration of Independence into Their Writings

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...