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Compare And Contrast Martin Luther King Jr Walt's Four Seasons

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Martin Luther King Jr's speech, "Letter from Birmingham Jail", and Franklin Roosevelt's seminal, "Four Seasons", explore people's fundamental human rights in their own time in history. Both Martin Luther King Jr and Franklin Roosevelt were very important people in history. They had very strong viewpoints on justice and advocating for human rights. King and Roosevelt were both greatly influenced by what was going on in history at the time. Martin Luther King Jr was speaking, from experience, about the injustice and racial prejudice that he had received. He defended his view on his race being oppressed and helped others realize what was being done. By writing this letter from jail, he was showing his endless want for justice. He explicated this in his poem by stating, "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." In King's letter, he thoroughly explained how these innocent people were being oppressed and it was an extreme injustice that needed to be resolved. In Franklin Roosevelt's seminal, "Four Seasons" he showed the audience how the freedom of speech, religion, want, and fear, are unalienable rights that should be given to ever person. Roosevelt continuously repeats how these rights should be given "everywhere in the world". He also tells the audience, "Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle is our unity of purpose." This is very

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