MILK Final Commentary Assignment: Write a formal commentary on ONE of the following passages. Your commentary should be between 800 - 1000 words, typed, double-spaced and standard 12 pt. font. Note “word count” at the end of the essay. Essay MUST be submitted to turnitin.com by the due date to be considered on time. Make sure both your annotated passage and your rubric are attached to the hard copy you turn in to me, DUE 3/25 (ODD), 3/26 (EVEN), Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word. It is the word "maladjusted." Now we all should seek to live a well—adjusted life in order to avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities. But there are some things within our social order to which | am proud to be maladjusted and to which I call upon you to be maladjusted. | never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination. | never intend to adjust myself to mob rule. | never i rend to adjust myself to the tragic effects of the methods of physical violence and to tragic militarism. | call upon you to be maladjusted to such things. | call upon you to be as maladjusted to such things. | call upon you to be as maladjusted as Amos who in the midst of the injustices of his day cried out in words that echo across the generation, "Let judgment run down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." As maladjusted as Abraham Lincoln who had the vision to see that this nation could not exist half slave and half free. As maladjusted as Jefferson, who in the midst of an age amazingly adjusted to slavery could cry out, "All men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” As maladjusted as Jesus of Nazareth who dreamed a dream of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. God grant that we will be so maladjusted that we will be able to go out and change our world and our civilization. And then we will be able to move from the bleak and desolate midnight of man’s inhumanity to man to the bright and glittering daybreak of freedom and justice.@ My people, my people, listen. The battle is in our hands. The battle is in our hands in Mississippi and Alabama and all over the United States. | know there is a cry today in Alabama, we see it in numerous editorials: "When will Martin Luther King, SCLC, SNC, and all of these civil rights, agitators and all of the white clergymen and labor leaders and students and others get out of our community and let Alabama return to normalcy?" But | have a message that I would like to leave with Alabama this evening. That i exactly what we don’t want, and we will not allow it to happen, for we know that it was normalcy in Marion that led to the brutal murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson. It was normalcy in Birmingham that led to the murder on Sunday morning of four beautiful, unoffending, innocent girls. It was normalcy ‘on Highway 80 that led state troopers to use tear gas and horses and billy clubs against unarmed human beings who were simply marching for justice. It was normalcy by a cafe in Selma, Alabama, that led to the brutal beating of Reverend James Reeb. Itis normalcy all over our country which leaves the Negro perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of vast ocean of material prosperity. It is normalcy all over Alabama that prevents the Negro from becoming a registered voter. No, we will not allow Alabama to return to normalcy. The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy that recognizes the dignity and worth of all of God’s children. The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy that allows judgment to run down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy of brotherhood, the normalcy of true peace, the normalcy of justice,is ao | accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of ‘America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. | accept this, award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic, scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of ju ice. | am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death. | am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized and murdered. And only yesterday more than 40 houses of worship in the State of Mississippi alone were bombed or burned because they offered a sanctuary to those who would not accept segregation. | am mindful that debilitating and grinding poverty afflicts my people and chains them to the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Therefore, | must ask why this prize is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed to unrelenting struggle; to a movement which has not won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize. After contemplation, | conclude that this award which I receive on behalf of that movement is a profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time - the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to Violence and oppression. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Negroes of the United States, following the people of India, have demonstrated that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. 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