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- 761: Martin Luther King Junior
- Martin Luther King Junior An American clergyman, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent resistance to racial oppression, Martin Luther King Jr. will forever be remembered for his service to people of all races and nationalities. He showed through his life and ... Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), with King as its president. It was the first step for King in the direction which would eventually take him to become one of the key players in the civil rights movement. A Broadening of Concerns On a visit to India in 1959 King was able to work out more clearly his understanding of Satyagraha, Gandhi’s principle of nonviolent persuasion, which he had determined to ... The next year he gave up his pastorate in Montgomery to become co-pastor (with his father) of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, enabling him to participate more effectively in the developing national civil rights movement. At that time African-American leadership was undergoing a radical transformation. Having once focused on litigation and reconciliation, it was now demanding change "by any means possible." Differences of ideology and jurisdiction between ...
- 762: Abort
- ... month before the birth, there is no problem, but if killed a month after birth, this is inhumane murder? It is morally and strategically foolish, because we lose the middle when we talk about reproductive rights without reference to a larger moral and spiritual dimension, and we are unwilling to use language like transgression and redemption, or right and wrong. -Wolf p54 The main purpose abortions are immoral is how they ... atrocious holocaust in the history of the United States." Other doctors refuse to perform legal abortions, saying they should save lives rather than destroy them. Many argue is it the women's or the foetus' rights and values that are being trampled on? "Pro-choice movements sometimes fall back on an abortion rhetoric that seems to dehumanize and trivialize the death of a foetus as a way to humanize and make important the reproductive rights of women." (Wolf p54) "Women can treat an unwanted foetus as a violation of her civil rights and is therefor justified tin using force to expel it" (McMillan pA12) The decision is not up ...
- 763: Huck's Struggle Between Morals
- ... You jus' take en look at it a minute. Dah's de stump, dah-dat's one er de women! heah's you-dat's de yuther one; I's Sollermun; en dish yer dollar bill's de chile. Bofe un you claims it. What does I do? Does I shin aroun' mongs' de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill do b'long to, en han' it over to de right one, all safe en soun, de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would? No; I take en whack de bill in two, en give half it to you, en de yuther to de yuther women. Dat's de way Sollermum was gwyne to do wid de chile. Now I want to ast you; what' ...
- 764: Animal Testing: Animals Suffer
- ... t be any experiments on animals, but in extreme situations where a huge number of peoples lives are in jeopardy an animal my be used for an experiment. In discussing both sides of the animal rights issue, it is important to understand what is obvious, animals suffer! If aliens were to come to planet earth and force humans to suffer in order to study our behavior or try to experiment on ... are humans. Most importantly there is no risk in killing an animal. There is an on going debate by medical experts on whether animal experimentation has increased the human life expectancy. People that oppose animal rights say that it has. That is false because studies have been done by professionals on ten infectious diseases in the U.S. and “in every case except poliomyelitis the death rate had already fallen dramatically ... focus should be set aside for health care and the major health problems of the world. That is the only reasonable and at the same time justifiable step to take care of the entire animal rights issue. Cohen, the author of a piece called “The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research” argues that animals have no rights because he says to have rights involves making a moral ...
- 765: Everyday Heroes, On To Kill A
- ... what I don't like about it" (163). His town is used to the common defense lawyers taking the cases of defending Negroes, and putting on a sham trial. Therefore, when a champion of human rights like Atticus actually does his job, he is looked upon with scorn. They are so used to the accepted ways of everyday life, that no lawyer would dare go against them all, and risk his whole life, to right an inequity in his heart. Atticus' deep want of fairness, and equal rights for all is greatly presented in the quotation, "Atticus voice dropped and as he turned away from the jury, he said something I didn't catch. He said it more to himself than to the ... true to his morals and delivers the most pivotal case of his career, showing infallibly the verdict of not guilty. However, the decision is not in the hands of citizens who are defenders of human rights, but people who are partial to their own agendas of prejudice. He wants to just reach out to one person in the jury, change their own selfish ways of thinking and turn their thoughts ...
- 766: Modern Torture
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 states in Article 5 that "No one shall be subjected to torture, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Yet, almost fifty years after the declaration ... t a tool of nations at war anymore as is often believed. Countries that are not engaged in any offensive use torture on its own citizens and inhabitants. China is a perfect example. The human rights violations in the People's Republic of China remain systematic and widespread. The Chinese government in an effort to suppress dissenting opinions and to maintain political control over the legal system abuses its judicial domestic ... radicals”. The lack of accountability of the government and the Chinese Communist Party means that abuses by officials often go unchecked. The PRC detains individuals for a wide variety of “radical” reasons like exercising their rights to freedom of association, religion and of expression, including the right to impart and receive information. The total number of persons in China detained without charge, sentenced administratively to reeducation or reform camps, or ...
- 767: Abortion: Birth Control or Legal Murder?
- ... our law murder is wrong, therefore it is unlawful to kill an unborn child. The child in the womb deserves the right to life. The fetus is a real human being and deserves all the rights and freedom given to people under the Constitution. This right is evident in the Fourteenth Amendment that states, "The State shall not deprive any person of life, liberty, property, without due process of the law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law" (Factbot). Abortion denies babies equal protection under the law, and is depriving a person of life. Thomas Jefferson stated human rights best when he wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" (Factbot). All unborn babies have the right to life guaranteed to humans under the constitution. No other person has the right to take ...
- 768: How The Great Wall Of China Ef
- ... to be based around what they believed to be right at the time, and from the study of such documents as the list of ‘cahiers’ and ‘American Declaration.’ The result was the ‘declaration of the rights of men and the citizen’ that stated that men are free and equal in their rights, those rights are more of liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression, and tax should be born equally by all citizens. A set of idealistic views that corresponded to the wants of the various members of ...
- 769: Victims Still
- ... has not helped the victim. The victim movement consisted of new legislation, institutions, and programs designed to help the victim. But when scrutinizing the policies, one the notices that many of the policies are deceiving. Rights that are supposedly being given to the victim are just rights that have been taken away from offenders only to strengthen the rights of the officials. Many of the programs designed to help victims are selective when it comes to which victims it will help. For example, there are some rehabilitation programs for drug users that refuse ...
- 770: A New Generation
- ... inadequate to train scientists and technicians. The students lacked and "appetite for achievement" (burner 43). JFK satisfied the people in 1969, when two American astronauts tackled the task and waled on the moon. The Civil Rights movement has been an opening for years. President Eisenhower dealt with an issue in Little Rock, Arkansas, which required federal troops to address a segregation in schools. Yet, Burner believes that Kennedy's civil rights had a "tone which was superior to that of the Eisenhower years" (Burner 126). Kennedy supported blacks to earn their votes. He supported the Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter sit in, and the desegregation of ... Guard Academy. Also, when Martin Luther King got arrested, JFK called his wife, Coretta, to show his concern. It is believed that this was done for support during his campaign and to help the civil rights issue. Kennedy did not take a firm stand on the civil rights issue. He needed the support of the African-American's votes, but he also knew that the votes of the white southerners ...
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