Document Type
Leadership and Service Essay
Publication Date
10-25-2012
Excerpt
In the play Antigone, by Sophocles (translated by Richard Braun), the king Kreon, makes a speech about the type of person a leader should be. He talks about what that leader should do and if he doesn’t take into account his people's wants then he "is the worst man there." His speech centers on the idea of being balanced and fair. However, his actions in the play contradict his speech. Martin Luther King, Jr., a spokesperson for nonviolent resistance, has his own beliefs as to what a leader should be. Some of the qualities the men describe agree with each other, but King Kreon's speech is very direct and strict and King would not have fully agreed with all of Kreon's beliefs...
Recommended Citation
Watkins, Erin, "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence: Part 2 (2012)" (2012). The Valpo Core Reader. 26.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/26
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