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Cop Killer Political Correctness
1,104 words... of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who " re supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression? Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American ac...
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Unjust Laws Jacques Rousseau
2,772 wordsIt is not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are not good... What kind of laws for free men can you expect from that? ... Christ was crucified... Captain Brown was hung. These are two ends of a chain, which is not missing its links. What is this link in the chain of lifes history? It is discontent with unjust laws - cruel and unjust laws enforced by no less cru...
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Unjust Laws Thurgood Marshall
2,771 words... he Ten Commandments and the teaching of Jesus held men in bondage as chattel. Great men arose in the defense of the slaves, John Brown being on of them. The United States of America was formed on the principles of separation of power and liberty and equality. Yet the white Christians only meant liberty and equality for the whites. During the American Revolution, Thomas Paine said, Give me liberty or give me death. He was applauded and deemed a hero; yet when the Black chattels or an abolitio...
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Adam And Eve Erich Fromm
1,809 wordsErich Fromm and Shirley Jackson have both written wonderful true-life affecting essays and should be awarded for them. I appreciate both stories and feel they both set tales to learn from and live by. As a combined theme for both I ld say human consciousness is more then a gift. And read on to see what I mean. In Erich Fromm we notice a compassionate concern for the unfolding of life. Fromm claims that "the growing process of the emergence of the individual from his original ties, a process whic...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Disobedience
679 wordsThere are times throughout the history of the United States when its citizens have felt the need to revolt against the government. There were such cases during the time of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau, when there was unfair discrimination against the Afro-American community and Americans refusing to pay poll taxes to support the Mexican War. They used civil disobedience to eventually get legislation to stop the injustice brought against them and their nation. Civil disobedi...
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Non Violent Civil Disobedience
713 wordsNon violent civil disobedience is the most powerful way to avoid violence while fighting for some major goal. Back in 1957 's Congress made a decision to apply the constitutional rights of equality to the black population of USA. At that time the US had a lot of segregation and racism. Black and white population of USA were separated. The relationship between the two races was combative. One of aspects of difference was the education that children were receiving in black schools. It was much wor...
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Teaching Responsible Disobedience Defend Ones Own Position Behavior
750 wordsLearning for every child starts from obedience, or to be more precise not learning, rather instruction start from notion of obedience. Nobody would argue that obedience or compliance, on the part of a child to more knowledgeable and, therefore, authoritative adult, is essential for any meaningful education. Yet, excessive obedience can be a source of mental sluggishness, passiveness and silent acceptance of everything an authoritative adult imposes. Children must understand the reasons behind ob...
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Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience
626 wordsA Summary of "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. He lived in the same town for most of his short life until he died in 1862 (he was just 45 years old). Thoreau entered Harvard College when he was just sixteen years old. He graduated in 1837 and was immediately employed in Concord as schoolteacher. A job he only held for two weeks after being dismissed for refusing to beat his students. He traveled to Maine but...
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The Philosophy Of Nonviolent Protest
1,935 wordsThe Philosophy of Nonviolent Protest In this report we are going to talk about the issues related to the philosophy of nonviolent protest using several examples of world literature and film such as H. D. Thoreau's essay Civil Disobedience, Bearing the Cross by Martin Luther King, Gandhi, 1982 video and The fight in the Fields- Cesar Chavez video 1996. Nonviolent protest is a way of disagreement with official and governmental decisions or other ways of conduct by not offending it in a military li...
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Reading Across The Curriculum Erich Fromm
1,601 wordsObedience and Authority In the era of high technologies and developed industries, when the world is spinning around at an extremely high speed, when there seems to be nothing beyond the capacity of the humanity, more and more people start to think and speak about morals. The origin of absolutely everything what is going on on our planet can be traced back to the morals of the society or to their lack. No matter what people do or think all their thoughts and deeds first come through an inner filt...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Disobedience
793 wordsThroughout the history of the United States, there have been many times when citizens have felt the need to revolt against their government. Such cases of revolt took place during the times of Martin Luther King Jr. , and Henry David Thoreau. The reasons for these revolts included discrimination against the African-American community and Americans refusing to pay poll taxes to support the Mexican War. These two men used civil disobedience to change peoples ideas and beliefs to stop the injustice...
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Washington D C Cop Killer
2,195 wordsWinning The Cultural War Charlton Heston February 16, 1999 addressing the Harvard Law School Forum I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living. My Daddy, he said, pretends to be people. There have been quite a few of them. Prophets from the Old and New Testaments, a couple of Christian saints, generals of various nationalities and different centuries, several kings, three American presidents, a French cardinal and two geniuses, includ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Henry David Thoreau
1,131 wordsThroughout American history, it is clear that many individuals have fought for justice in a society that has often denied it. We know this information from documents written by these individuals expressing their feelings on a certain subject. On the subject of human rights, two specific men have expanded their thoughts to make a difference. The very popular Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , whose main philosophy on civil disobedience revolved around nonviolence, wrote a? Letter From Birmingham Jail? ...
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Henry David Thoreau Thrown In Jail
1,125 wordsWe are all taught to fight for what we believe in, stick to our goals, make a difference in the world and listen to our conscience. We are also told that we have freedom of speech, however, it seems that is the only bit of freedom we do have. We are not allowed to act on what we believe in, or what we feel is right because the government has control over us. They make the laws that they feel make the world a better place to be, yet are ignoring are own personal pleas. We all have different views...
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Civil Disobedience Man
777 wordsPhilosophers, historians, authors, and politicians have spent centuries pondering the relationship between citizens and their government. It is a question that has as many considerations as there are forms of government and it is rarely answered satisfactorily. A relatively modern theorist, author Henry Thoreau, introduced an idea of man as an individual, rather than a subject, by thoroughly describing the way a citizen should live many of his works. He indirectly supplements the arguments he pr...
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Mohandas Gandhi Civil Disobedience
664 wordsCivil disobedience and passive resistance was morally superior to all other types of resistance to unjust laws. The philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi did not incite violence and was the safest and best way to resolve and abolish unjust laws. An example of this can be found in the incident at the Dharassana Salt Works, a British factory. The aspects of his philosophy were all peaceful and did not incite violence. The aspects were civil disobedience, live simply and serve others. The most important of...
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Civil Disobedience Earth First
1,089 wordsheres been some talk on this list lately about how we should distance environmentalism from the Unabomber, and foil attempts by the media to unite the two. Shouldnt we also look inward, and see if in any way a love of ature does or can lead to antipathy to humans? he relationship between environmentalism and violence had been on my mind prior to Ted Kaczynski's arrest, because I had been reading Mind Hunter, John Douglass memoir of his career heading the Fbi's serial crimes unit. In passing, Dou...
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Milton Paradise Lost York W W Norton
2,145 wordsJohn Milton's Paradise Lost is a religious work, and is in many ways an autobiography of Milton's own life. John Milton was raised catholic and converted to Protestantism. Later in life he became a Calvinist. His strong Calvinists beliefs can be seen throughout Paradise Lost. It was Milton's desire to be a great poet, but he did not believe that was his purpose in life. He believed that he had been put here to serve God, and that any thing that he wrote should be in one way or another related to...
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Law Of God Civil Disobedience
815 wordsDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed civil disobedience, when enacted for the correct reasons, was a useful tool to fight unjust laws. Dr. King gives guidelines and criteria for deciding if a law is just or unjust. The guidelines that I will discuss were created by Dr. King to help him decide whether a law is just or unjust and to then justify his reasoning against objections. If Dr. King, through his guidelines, found a law to be just, he believed that a display of civil disobedience against th...
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Civil Rights Movement Civil Disobedience
732 wordsThe progress toward equal rights for blacks in the U. S. has been going on for over two hundred years. Since the first colonists settled in the Americas, slaves were a common piece of property. This identity as property was reinforced when the United States Constitution counted slaves as 3 / 5 of a human. After the civil war, a series of laws and the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth amendments tried to set all citizens on the same level. Unfortunately, as a result of Please v. Ferguson, Jim ...
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