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This 3 page paper examines the works of Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson to address issues of freedom. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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an important point during the 1960s when the status quo was challenged. Both Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin sang loudly about the concept. During the 1960s, Martin Luther King and
Malcolm X would protests against a government they felt gave black people few rights. Of course, Martin Luther King would protest in quite a different way than did Malcolm X.
Either way, both would fight for freedom as a right for people of color. Martin Luther King once sat in a Birmingham jail and wrote a rather infamous letter
from there. He was in jail because he acted unlawfully, but he felt that his behavior was justified and years later, many agree with his actions. Effectively, the government was
wrong to have laws that supported segregation and Kings protests-though illegal-were justifiable. In his letter, King writes: " We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by
the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." Indeed, the idea that those who are oppressed just go along with the law is simply impractical. Rather, those who are
oppressed must take appropriate action-even if it means breaking the law-in order to be free. One may look back to the times of the slaves. Slavery was legal, but it
was not right and it was not conducive to freedom. For King, freedom was about equality and it seems that the Declaration of Independence had many of the same qualities
as Martin Luther Kings take on things. It should be said that Thomas Jefferson had a great deal of influence on the Declaration of Independence. The declaration expresses the
idea that freedom and happiness are one in the same. Perhaps the most important part of the Declaration of Independence is this well known line: " We hold these truths
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