While majority of the world have attempted great strides to eliminate racial and gender injustices during the late 1900's, a glance at current world shows the scrutiny that racial and gender injustices have caused. Despite intense effort to eliminate these justices, the efforts have escalated beyond control of the general public. Society are structured as group- based hierarchies in which the dominant groups end up with favorable circumstances ( eg. Power, Wealth). Racial and gender injustices can be equated with the same framework ,but the consequences of each injustice varies dramatically. Racial and gender injustices are clearly related, but they are also qualitatively and emphatically different. The similarity between them entwine on the fact that both sides had prominent non-violence leaders who intellectually stood for justice.
Racial injustice had spurred from the aftermath of the civil war and Emancipation Proclamation. The Era after the war proved difficult because both the whites and the African-Americans struggled to define freedom. Some blacks believed the only way to secure freedom was to have the government take land away from white people and give it
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to the African-American community. Only a very few asked for a opportunity to advance in the American society. (Brinkley) The whites were not worried about giving land , but they were reluctant on lending equal rights that would help African-Americans succeed in American society. The freedom from slavery did not stop injustices done to the African-American Community, rather it favored unjust acts done to the African-American community.
Martin Luther King and Fredrick Douglass were two notable leaders who stood for justice through non-violence prote...
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them as athletes, singers/rock stars, actors, authors etc. Once we recognize the true definition of a hero do we realize who the real heroes are. For some the service men and women become true heroes, or possibly our parents, teachers, human rights activist, or someone who made a great impact in our or societies life. For example, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. bettered the lives of millions of people by bringing justice to the minorities. Gandhi, a hero too many people, led a nonviolent revolution to
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