How did king respond to the charge that the protests in birmingham were "unwise and untimely"? how would you respond? what ratio
nale did king offer for his actions? why did he think that the struggle against segregation could not be confined to courtrooms and polite negotiations?
<span>King responded to
suggestion that the Birmingham protests were untimely by stating that Albert
Boutwell was not different enough to warrant patience. He further states that
privileged groups are always certain to oppose any action that threatens the
status quo. King justified his actions by stating that an individual has the
right to reject unjust laws, and that the black community had waited more than
340 years for justice.</span>
I would respond to the
claim that the protests were untimely by stating that the speed at which
negotiations were moving only extended the suffering period of the black
community. The continued election of racist leaders only made patience an
unnecessary virtue.
King discredited the
law because the majority forces the minority to adhere to it while not
following it as required. He states that the laws are both unjust and
undemocratic to minorities rendering courtrooms and negotiationsuseless in the
struggle against segregation.
Alexander Hamilton believed in a strong central government and weak state governments. Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, believed that the new nation should have a weak central government and strong state governments since the state governments would be more responsive to the people.
On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
