Two people from completely different walks of life and cultures have a multitude of similarities with each other. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau once said, “The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together”. In this essay, many different similarities between a multitude of authors will be discussed. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King, Jr. articulates the responsibility of the white church and others to peacefully call for civil rights. Within “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”, Zora Neale Hurston takes the reader through the journey of finding and loving her identity as Zora, and she describes how she is not burdened by her ancestor's treatment in the past. In “Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All” William Manchester retells his firsthand experience of the horrors of the American attack on Okinawa during World War II. …show more content…
Loren Eiseley speaks in “The Brown Wasps” about the attachments each person holds to memories and a place in time. In “Why Don’t We Complain” by William Buckley, he discusses the timid behavior of Americans in everyday occurrences. Stephen L. Carter discusses his thoughts on how a person can be honest without having integrity in his work “The Insufficiency of Honesty” Martin Luther King, Jr. and Zora Neale Hurston both possess an attribute of confidence and pride in their identity. William Manchester and Loren Eiseley both have memories from their past, either haunting or disrupting them. Stephen L. Carter and William Buckley share the view that people are influenced by what they want to hear and by what is the social