“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. This is a quote directly from Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American minister and Civil Rights Activist fond of...

At the peak of the Civil War Movement in America on April 12th, 1963, eight Alabama clergymen made a public statement announcing that Dr. Martin Luther King’s protests in the streets should end because they promote “hatred and violence” (par. 5)....

The Stoic way of life described in Epictetus’s Enchiridion (135 A.C.E.) is characterized by a freedom from anxiety and being highly aware of the limitations of humanity. The Enchiridion is a list of 52 principles that, by following them, would...

Martin Luther King and James Baldwin lived in the era of racial inequality and the civil rights movement, an era when African-Americans were still fighting to find a place in society. In 1963, King wrote a famous letter from jail while in 1957;...

In his letter to the clergymen, Dr. Martin Luther King utilizes many of the intellectual concepts that President Thomas Jefferson employed in the writing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. While highlighting...

As outspoken leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. urged black Americans to pursue equality with uncompromising dignity; however, each held a distinct opinion about the proper methods and the purpose of such...

Martin Luther King stated the following: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws” (King 259). Laws are meant to protect citizens and ensure order within society; however, when a law degrades human personality, the obligation to...

Why is history an essential core class in the American school curriculum? The phrase ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ is a surface-level answer to such question. The past formulates the ingredients for the future,...

Stride Toward Freedom by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a civil rights era memoir detailing the importance of love in revolution, and the necessity to revolt non-violently and with understanding towards others that are in different cages than your...