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Justice is Equality - College Term Paper

Justice is Equality

Thomas Jefferson said, “All men are created equal”. Then why for centuries were people of color fighting for their right for equality? Some may say what the word men meant to Jefferson was white men with land, if so it is understandable colored people were not included. There are two greatly known black freedom fighters, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. Both went above and beyond what people thought was possible for their time and proved that you can do what ever you want to do, if you just sent your mind to it.
As a young boy, Fredrick Douglass was taught to read and write by his master’s wife. When she was caught doing so, Mr. Auld told Mrs. Auld, “…A great deal of harm. ...

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the world to make people more aware of what Americans were doing to colored people. One of the most amazing feats of his time was being able to do just that. At the same time Douglass admitted, “I often find myself regretting my own existence, and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of being free, I have no doubt, and wishing that I should have killed myself” (165). For knowing too much he got depressed and wanting to die. This is sometimes the price people have to pay for knowledge, for Douglass absolutely it was worth the pain for his freedom.
About one hundred years after Fredrick, freedom riders and sit ins were all over the place, for equality. “We have waited for 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights” (217), said Martin Luther King Jr. He was one of the most well known leaders of peaceful equal right movements and for that was judged like no other. It is quite ridiculous to think that for over three centuries “colored” people were treated as ...

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Added: 4/4/2011 07:29:00 PM
Submitted By: ckosmach
Category: Government
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