The Power of Words

      Words can do do so much for their speakers, and their listeners. They can change their hearts, slay the darkness of their souls, and show them the light. Those who speak these words are able to express their thoughts and emotions, and show what they stand for. Words can also be dangerous weapons, for the words that are chosen can have different effects and outcomes; hence, they should be chosen carefully. Although words can only reach a few people in contrast to all the people in the world, words have the power to provoke change, calm people, and inspire change.

     The strength and meaning words have can cause people to take actions, and many used their voice to reach out to people and push them to take these actions. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one to do so, in his “I Have a Dream” speech, where he says: “ I have a dream right here in Alabama that little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers”(pg 280) This speech given by the late Dr. King Jr. was able to inspire people in the cause of anti-segregation, and provoke them to take action in the noble cause, for the betterment of the United States. Words have the power to provoke people into taking actions, but words can also stop people from preforming the wrong, or dangerous actions that could’ve been the result of anger, or hatred.

      The flow that words go by and the voice that delivers them can put down the raging storms in people’s hearts. Robert F. Kennedy, similarly to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was able to create an effect on the people he spoke to, and was able to calm the enraged crowd of Indianapolis during his speech where he delivered the news of Dr. King’s assassination; however, Robert F. Kennedy was able to ease the minds of those people with his words: “What we need in the United States is not division; What we need in the United States is not hatred; What we need in the United States is not violence, or lawlessness; But love, and wisdom, and compassion towards one another”(pg. 295) With his speech, he was able to deliver news that angered many, and what would otherwise result in assaults from the African Americans, provided the fact that the assassination was the result of a racial motive. Words, if used properly, can calm people; however, there is still an evil in some that must be changed, and pulled out of the darkness they were shunned into.

     Words that are used with proper strength can push people to take actions, and push them in the right direction, inspiring them to change. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was able to do this as well, inspiring people to change in one of the letters he wrote known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, where he says: “ I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed in the white moderate. I have reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride towards freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice, who prefer a negative peace, which is the absence of  tension, over a positive peace which is the presence of justic”(pg. 279). Dr. King was able to express his ideas of what their is what he wishes to achieve. Dr. King was able to inspire those dragged down into the darkness to see the light, and change for the better them the will be, and the better future of “positive peace”.

     Words are more powerful that what can be read, words can provoke actions, calm people, and inspire them to change. People like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy were able to preform these outstanding feats, and make an impact on the people they share the gift of their words with. It is important to use words properly, for words can be dangerous weapons, worthy of destruction, and the ones who speak them are tasked with controling the power they have, because if not all the bring is harm.

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