Juan Said:

I need help on writing an essay about "the ways of meeting oppression," by martin luther king jr.?

We Answered:

i would choose nonviolent resistance. Why? because king made a lot of references to gandhi and the nonviolent demonstrations he led to lead his people to independence in india. king hoped he would be able to do the same without using any violence to get his message across to allow both white and black races to gain equal rights.

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Barry Said:

i need help on writing an essay about "the ways of meeting oppression," by martin luther king jr.?

We Answered:

Sometimes it can be difficult for us to understand what America was like before Martin Luther King helped people to use non-violent resistance to move the struggle for civil rights forward. We all can look back on slavery and think that it was terrible or some of us might even laugh about it because it seems so perfectly unthinkable now. Today blacks and whites work in the same offices. We have a black candidate for president. Clearly there is a lot more equality now than in the days of slavery.

But back in the 50s when the Civil Rights movement started, whites were still mistreating blacks. Blacks did not have the same access to education as whites. They did not have the same access to jobs or money or even water fountains. Yes, separate water fountains. Blacks couldn't eat inside many diners. Hopefully you have heard about these aspects of life that were really tough for blacks all the way up to the 1960s, long after the end of slavery.

So that's the background to understanding these three ideas:
acquiescence, violence, or nonviolent resistance.

The blacks had these choices.

They could live with the inequality: acquiescence.
They could fight back with weapons and kill whites and be killed: violence.
Or they could choose to resist, but in nonviolent ways like marching, or sitting in restaurants and asking for service and not leaving until they were served: nonviolent resistance.

This is the course they chose and it was the best course because it helped change the situation but did not get too many people killed.

I hope this helps.

Rosemary Said:

Martin Luther King Junior?

We Answered:

look up when he said it, why he said,and a little bit of background information about him and what was going on in that time.

Marion Said:

Do you think martin luther king could live and preach non violence In todays world?

We Answered:

I believe that MLK could and would preach the same message today as he did then. There is no way that he was unaware of the danger he brought to himself. He strongly believed in his message and I believe he would preach his message no matter when or where he lived. I do believe he would find today's world an easier environment with a more receptive audience. However I do believe he would eventually come to the same end because that is simply the way we are.

Franklin Said:

Martin Luther King Jr. Dream speech-questions!!?

We Answered:

"I Have a Dream" is the popular name given to the historic public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites among others would coexist harmoniously as equals. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over two hundred thousand civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. According to U.S. Congressman John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had the power, the ability and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a modern day pulpit. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."

Legend holds that King departed from his prepared text and began preaching extemporaneously, but he had delivered a similar speech incorporating some of the same sections in Detroit in June 1963, when he marched on Woodward Avenue with Walter Reuther and the Rev. C.L. Franklin, and had rehearsed other parts.

Widely hailed as a masterpiece of rhetoric, King's speech resembles the style of a Black Baptist sermon. It appeals to such iconic and widely respected sources as the Bible and invokes the United States Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the United States Constitution. Through the rhetorical device of allusion, King makes use of phrases and language from important cultural texts for his own rhetorical purposes. Early in his speech King alludes to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by saying "Five score years ago..." Biblical allusions are also prevalent. For example, King alludes to Psalm 30:5 in the second stanza of the speech. He says in reference to the abolition of slavery articulated in the Emancipation Proclamation, "It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity." Another Biblical allusion is found in King's tenth stanza: "No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." This is an allusion to Amos 5:24. King also quotes from Isaiah 40:4 — "I have a dream that every valley shall be exalted..."

Anaphora, the repetition of a phrase at the beginning of sentences, is a rhetorical tool employed throughout the speech. An example of anaphora is found early as King urges his audience to seize the moment: "Now is the time..." is repeated four times in the sixth stanza. The most widely cited example of anaphora is found in the often quoted phrase "I have a dream..." which is repeated eight times as King paints a picture of an integrated and unified America for his audience. Other occasions when King used anaphora include "One hundred years later," "We can never be satisfied," "With this faith," and "Let freedom ring."