Human rights are rights fundamental to all human beings, regardless of ethnicity, gender, race, worship, language, nationality, or any other status. Since the time of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of human rights and activists, many individuals have emerged over the years to continue the fight for civil rights and freedom. Our deeds should be in unison with the tenet of justice, freedom, and flawless human equality. Fredrick Douglass can also be considered one of the freedom fighters (Foner 321). He debated that movement from one county to another should be a universal human right. Douglass’s specific goal of a country entailing citizens of all races and ethnic origins and enjoying equivalent rights was very primitive at the time. But his idea became more and more accepted in the 20th century. Although human beings are given the freedom of movement, this right is only limited in their country, where it is either their nation of birth or the country, they have acquired citizenship. In the 1800s, the right of movement was hindered due to slavery. Nothing much has changed in our today’s life because the freedom right is hindered by programs such as deportation and worldly things such as visas. I can’t entirely agree with this. The freedom of movement should be expanded to any part of the world. People should be able to move from one country to another without having the immigration offices on their backs because of reasons such as being from a different race.
Douglass believes that moving freely from one country to another should be considered a universal human right because of many helpful facts. One of the reasons is that some countries are affluent in resources, but they have no labor power due to low population or having a substantial age bracket. The freedom of movement will allow other nations who require work to move there and work, regardless of whether they have acquired citizenship. This will help curb poverty in the world and also promote unity. However, the free movement may seem risky because people have different intentions when doing something, and the demerit of the language barrier may promote conflict between the migrator and the sol resident. According to Douglass, the white race is the one that barns all other races from their continent. Then, it may be right to do the same in respect to all other lands, capes, islands, and continents, and thus have all the world to itself (Foner 324). Hence, what would appear to belong to the whole, would be owned only by a part, and this is not just.
Although deportation has drawn closer and increasingly exploration from activists, a more extraordinary but empirical occurrence of mass media coverage and the scholarly heed, it is evident that the social and political ramifications of banishment and the attendant condition of deportability remain very much underexamined and insufficiently explored. People migrate from one nation to another for many different reasons, for example, searching for greener pastures, for security, thus getting away from disputes, thus seeking refuge, finding a new environment to start over, adventure, studying and learning about new cultures and many other reasons.
Among the three prompts, I choose to work on the first Fredrick Douglass’ prompt because personally, I am a historian and I have following on the background of human rights, and the freedom fighters and activists. Fredrick Douglass being one of them, prompt one helps me conceptualize more about him and his deeds, making prompt one the most interesting. Similarly, the remaining two prompts display a reasonable degree of interest. Judy Yung talks about how Chinese women in the first wave of immigrants going to America in the middle nineteen century were abused and discriminated against in different parts of the US, such as California. Drew Gilpin Faust talks about the southern white women; the southern women tolerated a lot of mistreats so that they could continue with classes and get racial superiority during the civil war. Similarity is noted in three prompts as they all faced the wrath of the harsh environment in the 1800s characterized by slavery, discrimination and poverty. Conclusively, Fredrick Douglass, besides being in slavery, was on the frontline in the fight for the rights and freedom of the black people bringing out an insight into the retaliation and opposition of the critical prejudice.
Work Cited
Forner Eric. (2017) “Voices of freedom.” A documentary of history, vol 1, no 5, 2017, pp 321-326.
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