THE WAYS OF MEETING OPPRESSION

THE WAYS OF MEETING OPPRESSION

I chose this topic because, I read a text " The ways of meeting oppression”, Martin Luther King(1958) criticizes the people who don’t do anything to get rid of their oppression. I really agree with him, because living without oppression won’t be so difficult, if we have enough courage to begin a new life. There are some methods for dealing with oppression. One of them is acquiescence and, because of it, a lot of people don’t think to be able to get rid of their oppressions. There are some reasons why people have this attitude. Firstly, the most important thing is the lack of self confidence. Actually, this characteristic doesn’t improve in oppressed people at all due to the deficiency of living independently. Second, there is cowardice in the face of different life. When an oppressed person become free, (s)he will like a fish out of water.

Another method is physical violence. I want to expression for this reason: “sad but true”, because it is only a mistake which feels them strong. If violence is a solution, there won’t be any problem after wars and it won’t be temporary. It just conceals people’s coward and draw away them to reach their own lives.

Getting this trouble isn’t difficult as much as people think. The oppressed people succumb to their fate. By taking this into consideration, the oppressed should give up saying “my doom” for everything. There are two basic things which should be preferred to fate. First is not giving up and the other is resisting by struggling with the troubles which they have. I think that another vital solution is to really want it because nothing will encourage them if they don’t want to change. Desire for a new, independent life is the first step for beginning to change something in their life.

To conclude, the oppressed should do everything to have their real lives and always think that actually they don’t live they are oppressed.