Social Injustice

The world has widespread inequality. This ineqality could have been accepted had it not been that it has resulted in gross injustice.

Injustice is the scourge of any civilization. From ancient times  right-thinking people have raised their voice against it.

Cyrus the great is generally considered the world’s first to believe in human rights.
In 539 B.C., the armies of Cyrus the Great conquered the city of Babylon. But rather than rape and pillage, Cyrus freed the slaves, declared freedom of religion and established racial equality.

In the millennia following, there have been many who wanted all humans to be equal. Among them are Martin Luther King jr, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.

And the lesser known  Rosa Parks.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

"Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

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