In this blog, Albert relates some examples to some incidences in which the minorities rose up to fight for their freedom/rights. Ranging from discrimination to governmental oppression, each group had one, unanimous goal: to achieve liberty and human rights. In Martin Luther King’s speech, “I have a dream”, King emphasizes the importance of the abolishment of racial discrimination through repetition of various phrases such as, “Let freedom ring.” The next example relates to a book, “Speechless” in which it conveys the voices of other oppressed women in the world. “The Burmese Monk” depicts the violation of civil rights among Burmese people since the army overthrew the democratic government in 1982. As the military tried to break up the people by destroying Burmese mosques and churches, Shepard Fairey (painter) depicted the figure of a monk to symbolize peace. “Liberty leading the people” by Eugene Delacroix, depicts the fight for freedom during the French Revolution when French citizens were continually oppressed from their rights. The woman in the middle is represented as the dominant figure who is trying to lead the people to absolute freedom and bring a new change into the world. His final piece, “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is the great school of Mao Zedong thought,” is a propaganda poster during Mao’s reign in China. This was one of the many propaganda posters in which Mao limited free speech and thought of other people, and this poster effectively represents totalitarianism in China. People were sent to concentration camps if they opposed Mao’s thoughts while the poster conveys the idea that Mao is a “good” leader of the people.
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