Moral Obligation In the "Crito" written by Plato, the argument of whether or not it is morally right to escape prison is in question. At the beginning of the dialogue, Crito offers Socrates an escape though Socrates has already made up his mind and quickly refuses this opportunity. For Socrates believes that though he may have been convicted for the wrong reasons, the laws are just. In this essay, I will examine both arguments given by Crito and Socrates. Crito does not start with very strong
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in “I Have a Dream,” utilizing it as a device to ascertain his charm. In a biography of Dr. King, Stephan Oates deliberates how King and his aides “labored on his speech throughout the night,” yet completely deserted script when speaking and spoke from the heart (Oates, 1983). Taylor Branch claims in Parting the Waters, a study of King, that once he began speaking “extemporaneously,” “there was no alternative but to preach” (Lei, 1999). King’s education informed the speech while altering the way
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clause 40 of which reads, "To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice." A closer historical example is that Martin Luther King Jr once used the phrase “justice too long delayed is justice denied” in his letter from Birmingham jail. All of the above indicates that slow justice really puts a question mark on fair justice. There are more recent cases related to slow justice and it proves that justice delayed is equal to no justice. The following paragraphs will express
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To obtain justice does one need power, and to obtain power does one need weapons? In the Civil Rights Movement there have been many views on how to change one issue, racial inequality. From groups like the Black Panthers who advocated for the rights to bare arms for self protection, to the Freedom Riders who did not believe violent retaliation in any form. Comparing figureheads such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X show the distinct differences between the two, what may seem like a radical
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social and economic ravages of Jim Crow era racism were all-encompassing and deep-rooted. Yet like a phoenix rising from the ashes of lynch mobs, debt peonage, residential and labor discrimination, and rape, the black freedom movement raised a collective call of "No More"! The maintenance of white power had been pervasive and even innovative, and hence those fighting to get out from under its veil had to be equally unrelenting and improvisational in strategies and tactics. What is normally understood
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capital punishment was performed on North American soil? The first execution in the colonies was that of Captain George Kendall. The execution took place in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. Captain Kendall was executed for being a spy for Spain. From there on out, capital punishment continued throughout the colonies. The crimes punishable by death varied for colony to colony (DPIC). Today, there are around fifty countries that still use the death penalty. One of these countries is the United
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constant scrutiny from average citizens to pundits. Critics evaluating a leader’s strength do not think that strong leaders are people who simply have a lot of state power; an autocrat is not necessarily “strong.” Effective, strong leaders are considered “strong” because of their resourcefulness. Turmoil is inevitable, and a leader must be prepared for the worst. If French and American colonial leaders were unprepared to respond to the oppression they felt respectively from the French and British
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rights. Since the ratification of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 signaled significant development, members of society often came to the conclusion that racial equality had been achieved. However, in reality, society was far from establishing this equality. Though, in writing, discrimination against individuals based on color could no longer take place, states still found ways to subtly put specific groups at a disadvantage. Even today, over half a century later, states continue
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The most successful person today suffered thousands of problems just to get to the peak of this rollercoaster. We are taught to learn from our mistakes, but that suffering we face, after making a mistake, makes us regret everything. We just remember the suffering instead of the valuable lessons. Even in the U.S.A., if former slaves would not have suffered the racism and the slavery, they would have never fought for freedom. All the immigrants who come here in a hope of better life and education,
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establishes that in order to doubt his present opinions, he needs simple reasons, and rather than doubt his all his opinions individually, he has to admit that the entirety of his beliefs is wrong. Everything the author accepts as true he has come to learn from his senses, and though the senses can sometimes deceive with objects that are either very small or far away, he admits that our sensory knowledge is sturdy. In the Second Meditation, after making the choice to doubt everything, the author comes to
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