Rosa Parks “If success is defined as being well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference, then we don’t want successful leaders. We want great leaders who love the people enough and respect the people enough to be unbought, unbound, unafraid, and unintimidated to tell the truth”-Dr. Cornel West. When we think about these type of leader; it makes us think who has left an impact or major influence on Texas or even just society itself. One person that might come to mind is Rosa Parks
North and the South in the late 1800’s. Nearing the end of the Civil War, the 13th amendment was passed; this meant thaintt slavery was abolished and slaves were freed from their owners. Although slavery ended, there was still segregation between the whites and blacks. The 14th and 15th amendments helped with black rights, but there was still a distance. They needed Martin Luther King Jr. to help, King was a Civil rights activist who did not like the way that blacks were being treated. He stepped up
Leaders become great not because of their powers, but because of their ability to empower others (best25). We have had great leaders to come through the United States to deliver great speeches about racial inequality. For example, Dr. Martin Luther King, George W. Bush, William J Clinton, and Barack Obama. Dr. King I have a dream speech signified Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and formed a civil rights movement. George W. Bush ending
Matin Luther King's struggle for human rights (Human Rights) Americans are famous. Movement leaders claim with the Spanish government. Equality of blacks. The policy and guidelines against the use of soft glove approach of Mahatma Gandhi's early life, his training has given him a tolerance. And discipline since childhood. Experienced many different environments where he was found to be racist. Between whites and blacks environment where he met made him turn to admire Mohandas Gandhi did not accept
U.S. Marshals ensuring the building, several demonstrators were happenings. Additionally in 1967, the anti-war movement got a arrested. One of them was the writer Norman Mailer, who later wrote a book "The Armies of the Night" where he describes major support when the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. opened up to the world about his restriction to the war on good grounds, condemning the unbalanced number of African-American victims in relation to the aggregate number of killed soldiers
society to the Industrial Revolution. He deeply influenced the transcendental movement and was the forefather of the subsequent style of the next generation of writers. People who shared his concerns about the changing world were inspired and valued his work, therefore causing his reputation to flourish. Henry David Thoreau’s early