W ITHIN THE WORLD ’ S LARGEST ISSUES IN HISTORY, ONE CAN SEE MAN TAKING THE RESPONSIBILITY TO CORRECT CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE JUSTICE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Kelsey Wolfe Chelsea Montgomery Haylee Pierce Robert Hall

C IVIL D ISOBEDIENCE “All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable” (Thoreau). Many times in history people have followed the teachings of Thoreau by standing up to a government’s injustices. Ex: Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi

T HE H OLOCAUST A handful of Jehovah’s Witness challenged the Nazi Government even when facing the risk of being sent to concentration camps and eventual death. Through their efforts they exposed the cruel practices used by the Nazi’s and potentially helped end Hitler’s reign, saving many lives from future turmoil. Instead of standing back and letting the killing of innocent people continue, they took the responsibility to challenge Germany’s corrupt government (Standing).

R OSA P ARKS Rosa Parks stood up against discrimination when she refused to give her bus seat up to a white man. This lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott which was a plea to the government for equal rights. In 1956, the American Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was illegal, improving the lives of African Americans for years to come (English).

M ARTIN L UTHER K ING J R. “Rev. King emphasized the importance of working together to fight injustice. As he stated so eloquently in his letter form a Birmingham jail: ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly’” (Creighton). Whatever injustices the government inflicts now will continue to effect later generations. Martin Luther King Jr. expresses the need for people to stand up to this corruption now so the future for everyone will be brighter.

T HE D AY OF A FFIRMATION Robert Kennedy’s speech was fighting for South African’s individual liberties because of their corrupt government. “…the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills – against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence” (Political). Kennedy explains that no matter who you are or where you are, you can always find a way to make a difference in all lives under a corrupt government. “Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man” (Political).

I NSIDE J OB Inside Job shows a perfect example in America’s history where man never takes the responsibility to address injustice and what happens because of this. The corrupt banking system in America started after its deregulation by the government in 1981 and eventually caused people to lose their homes all while putting them into debt. Since the system wasn’t regulated by the government these bankers left the catastrophe holding millions. Someone should have taken the responsibility to address this corrupt practice and to point out that it all started with the decisions of the government. Now future generations will have no choice but to carry the debt of their parents (Ferguson).

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