The March On Selma, By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it’s ripe. You have to make it fall.’ This quote is from Che Guevara and is saying that you have to take actions to change something or to bring a society down. Like the civil war, it separated the United States into two places, the “South” and the “North’. The United States in the south wants slavery and in the north they want to save the slaves. Dr Martin Luther King Jr protested and he did a speech to stop the Jim Crow Laws. He was a guy who uses words and speech, not violence to change violence. So clearly the pen is more powerful.

The pen’s power had some life changing effect on the country. Like the march on Selma, Dr King Jr marched for three days and they were faced with violence but