final blog

In this blog I’m going to be concentrating on Dr. King’s ideas about nonviolence and how it connects to Human Rights.  The idea of protesting and speaking against the segregation nonviolently was one of his main ideas of his theory.  He took his actions against the injustice through marching and especially his speeches which were so powerful that people just listened to it and followed without raising any questions or doubts.  He used the language of Human Rights and it worked because there were truths in it like what people deserve to have as their basic rights regardless of race, gender or ethnicity e.t.c.  In the article 1 it says that all human beings are born free and equal under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and this is what Dr. King was trying to prove that every human being deserve this right and it even says so in our Bill of Rights that every citizen of U.S has the right to freedom and speech.  Everyone should take the course of Human Rights or should know about them because many of us are unaware of our rights.  If everyone gets the knowledge of human rights we can shape our lives for the betterment.  The language of Human Rights can be a tool to express our ideas of or have a say against inequality. 

Even today many people’s rights are being taken away in U.S and all over the world.  In the class the Introduction to Language we learned that when we grow up as a child we begin to learn language without any hesitation and as we grow up we master in that language but hesitate to use it against injustice and many of us wear veil of ignorance.  There was also a case where a in U.S where a child was kept in a room without any connection to the outside world even the parents so in result when they discover her she couldn’t speak a word but that’s just one case in a million but majority of us know our languages our rights but do not have any intentions to use it.  This was Dr. Kings purpose to remove the veil of ignorance because he said those who knows something is not right in the community and still decide to keep their mouth close and do not raise their voice are more dangerous to the community than the KKK the most racist group during that time.  The language can be vastly effective for good and also bad.  For example Dr. King was successful by doing so through his theory, writings and let’s not forgets his speeches where we witness in his videos where people are laughing and following his theory even though they were the result they want won’t be that easy and it wasn’t.  However, in today’s society many politicians and religious leaders who are good speakers tend to manipulate their communities and its people so there are limits too.  Dr. King’s idea was not to manipulate people but to open their eyes for something great like equality for all mankind.  In my Human Rights class I read an article about this guy who was beaten and thrown in jail because he raised a flag in a peaceful protest.  Because of the media and internet many people were known about this case and all of us are deciding to write a persuasive letter to the minister of that country to release or at least treat him as a prisoner in the jail but not as a rebellious because he has been harshly treated.  So let’s see now how powerful our language is can it convince those politicians who are constantly violating his Human Rights.  If we succeed this will be a victory for all of us and we will definitely know that the language of Human Rights can motivate people because we have seen in past many great leaders have accomplished it and change the wrong system of their countries.  Dr. King was one them but he was something special because he did it nonviolently.