Persecution Is A Perpetual Entity Within Humanity

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor,” (Desmond Tutu). There have been countless instances of people rebelling for change for the perceived greater good. Injustices such as the merciless monarchy, abuse of the government, segregation, or discrimination, strike a movement and longing for change. In most cases, change -or at least a compromise- is met and betters history.

Examples can be found throughout history, revolutionaries who pushed for a better tomorrow. In the American Revolution, the revolutionary leaders faced punishment by the British, but with the dream of a brighter future of independence, John Hancock audaciously inscribed his name at the base of the Declaration of Independence, the document signifying the birth of a nation, built on the hope that a person could work hard and be rewarded, and that a people could live freely without fearing oppression from any reigning monarch. Even if it’s not sparking a revolution, even if the eyes of the world isn’t watching, people are forced with the weighing decision of whether to make a difference or let the issue pass peacefully over them, ignored, everyday. In places like schools, workplaces, and on the streets of the world, witnesses see injustice, and are faced with a split second decision: do I do something or ignore it? A good citizen stands up, and faces the crowd, tells the bully to back down, and does something to make life better, even for a short period, because they know that everyone deserves

Numerous instances of oppression throughout history call into question its impact on society in the past and present. Governments like those of Joseph Stalin’s Communist regime or Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime illustrate the ways in which it was justified. First-hand accounts of the people victimized from oppression give form to its methodologies. Even today, it leaves its stain on the fabric of the modern world. Through sources such as “The Need for Progress” by Joseph Stalin and Elie Wiesel’s famous memoir Night, readers can gain a better understanding of the driving principles and effects of oppression. Past governments have used the threat of racial and religious minorities to justify their persecution. One method of oppression involved the

This chapter focuses on anti-oppression and anti-discrimination practice. We will be looking at what is meant by these terms and the law which underpins them. We will explore the different ways people are affected by oppression and how to combat it. Evaluate society’s stereotypical images of groups of people in society and the principles of positive action and anti-oppression.

Many who experience racism and hate are affected because hate is fueled by differences. Susie Sasagawa, a Japanese American affected by imprisonment, truthfully recognizes, “Just because you look like the enemy doesn’t mean you should be uprooted” (Speech). This statement exemplifies how a Japanese American such as Susie, is feeling towards the bigotry we created. Differences in today’s society have created misunderstanding among people. There is an abundance of dehumanizing. People experience this type of hate, such as a young lady, a Muslim American, a true feminist, Sabah Mukhtar describes, “I am scared of society because people might judge me because of the cloth I wear on my head.”, which shows her fear of the hate because many are to judge her

Spokesperson and leader of the Civil rights, Marther Luther King Jr., once said, “the ultimate tradegy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”Oppression has, is, and always will be part of a society and there will always be oppressors; however, it is up to the individuals being oppressed to speak up and end the oppression that occurs in a community, it is there job to identify the rights and wrongs and not let the cycle of oppression continue, it is their obligation to speak up and act, it is under their accountability to terminate oppression and not let it snare them. In the book Black Boy by Richard Wright and “Overcoming Obstacles: What Oprah Winfrey Learned From Her Childhood

Although the piece may discuss persecution among certain groups of people because of false perceptions, it is really about people's desires to utilize scapegoats as a way of justification for their misfortunes, but their reasoning for scapegoating was ultimately irrational.

Injustice is unavoidable and all over the world, justice is violated. Almost everywhere people are persecuted in their own countries, the innocent are sent to jail, and people are victims of violent crimes. These acts of injustice affect the global community and inhibit the spread of equality and righteousness. In “The Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King says that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere . . . Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” (143). Everyone wants to be treated fairly but there are places in the world where atrocities take place which impact the entire world, such as the persecution of Tibetans in

There are so many serious issues like poverty, disease, war and so much more happening in this world. Life is already difficult therefore, why must we allow something like discrimination makes people afraid of whom they truly are. It is clear that discrimination is a part of a systematic use of power that “the enslavement of Africans in the United States, the official domination of Blacks by Whites in South Africa, and Hitler's widespread extermination of Jews are some historic examples of systematic, legal discrimination” so why can’t we break this chain. Like I mentioned in my introduction, discrimination is an action people have come to witness but yet, we still discriminate against each other. Everyone wants to be superior over the other, others on the other hand, would never accept different types of races in their mist therefore, and we will never find peace.

The victims of discrimination are sometimes portrayed as the evil ones. In Divergent by Veronica Roth, a girl named Tris has the power of being divergent which allows her to resist serums and certain things that make her think differently, because of these things she is often discriminated against by groups of people and try to kill her. In a similar text, Malcolm X By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers a young African American man is trying to live the American dream but realizes he can’t because of the racism and discrimination he is undergoing and decides to live a life of religion. In Divergent Veronica Roth suggests that people who are discriminated against have more power than those discriminating and should

In the year 64 A.D. in the city of Rome, the centre of the Roman

People have always asked why the Church has prevailed and grown when it has been persecuted for centuries. The only answer to this question is God. Had God not been behind the world’s oldest ongoing and mighty institution we call the Church, it would have ceased to exist as we know it. God knew exactly what He was doing when he sent many signs from heaven including the prophets and even His own Son to show us the way. He wanted to create a relationship with us and to make us more like him. He wanted to establish a Church in which we could worship and remember Him for all eternity, and he did just that. Through the Church and God’s only Son, Jesus, we are able to prevail like the Church has for generations.

According to renowned author William Scott Downey, you must “Never be angry with your neighbor because his religious views differ from your own; for all the branches of a tree to not lean the same way.” In the history of our planet and our contemporary society, there has always been conflict between individuals over their religious views. Religion influences our daily lives to a great extent, and without it, our modern society would be much different. However, religion has caused much conflict and hostility that still exists today. In our contemporary world, prejudice has been placed against people of various beliefs through popularized media, false notions and violence involving religion in many parts of the world. The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe follows the story of a man in an African village, fighting for his religious beliefs and his family amidst the settling of Christian missionaries in his homeland. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie follows the story of a young girl trying to discover her true self amongst religious familial pressures. In both novels, there are illuminating incidents that outline the hatred that various religious peoples have for one another and the great lengths to which many individuals go to protect their identity and beliefs.

In a society wherein countless individuals have become proud of their ignorance, proud of being bigoted and racist, proud homophobic and sexist, it becomes all too simple to fall into the endless cyclical trap that is hatred and fear and violence. When a society, or a subset of that society, becomes content to believe anything presented to them, without a care to learn more, to notice or take into account the entire picture; they begin to lose their drive for knowledge, their yearning for new knowledge, for invention, for progress. In fact, many even begin to fear it, to fear the unknown. This fear of the unknown easily morphs into violence, to hatred. Eventually, this itself leads into pride in this fear of the unknown, a pride in ignorance, and foolishness.

Even though the mandatory killings and public burnings have stopped, there is still rampant discrimination caused by the remnants of this mentality. The stigma caused by organized religion, even though our world slowly regains its idea of equality,