Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King was disappointed in the churches. He expected to see the people of the church trying to find a way for segregation to end. Yet they sat around doing nothing a few tried to help but the rest and the majority just ignored it. In Birmingham were Martin Luther King Jr. was invited to a protest, he was segregated against and put into jail, along with all the other people. They say that he was put in jail because of that yet we all know it was because of his racial background. In the jail he writes about how cruel and unjust these people are being treated. Like Thoreau he also believes in standing up for your self and taking action into your own hands. Ha believed that if he didn’t do that and if all the other people did not do that either. Then nothing would have happened because no one other than themselves are suffering and therefore no one else would care. There were so many people he looked up to a few which he named were very good legendary men. He believed that by standing up to your rights you should be able to get your point across. That when you disagree to get out of your seat on a segregation bus your are refusing to be segregated. That’s when you take action into your hands and riots break out it is fine because only now are they going to hear and listen to what you have to say. If equality is what our nation was built on then we want it.