Fear or Love?

Argumentative Essay: Final Draft

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Leaders that have been feared and loved have been out
ruling the world for centuries, but how to rule a place was full of
complicated ideas. Today most of our leaders are being arranged
into two different groups, which is fear or love. Machiavelli states
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Machiavelli is incorrect because there are so many loved leaders
throughout the world that outnumber the feared ones. Martin
Luther King JR. helped his culture earn their rights of freedom,
Franklin D. Roosevelt helped many families survive The Great
Depression, and Abraham Lincoln freed African slaves as well.
Although being feared has its benefits, being loved is more
beneficial because citizens will be supportive, people will
approach these loved leaders, and the economy will become a
more improved place.
To begin, Martin Luther King JR. helped his culture earn their
rights of freedom. Many African American adults, including
children were forbidden to eat at the same lunch tables with white
people, they had to sit in the back of the bus (even if they were
the only ones on there), werent allowed at the same restaurants
as white people, and more! Then someone finally stepped up to
argue. Martin Luther King JR. had his famous I have a dream
speech to give in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Martin Luther King
JR. stated If we are united, we can get as many of the things that
we not only desire, but which we justly deserve. (Pg 26 People
who helped the world : Martin Luther King JR.) Martin Luther King
JR. is implying that all people deserve their rights. By giving his
speech in front of the Lincoln memorial, Martin wanted to remind
the audience that Lincoln freed African American slaves. Martin

Luther King JR. was a loved leader because he volunteered to let

the country know about how his culture was being mistreated. His
culture and the audience soon after he gave the speech were all
supportive to him. Martin Luther King JR. is not a feared leader
because he was assassinated. After his honored speech was over
it was shortly till someone from the audience shot him. Suddenly
there was a sharp explosion. DR. King reeled and then pitched to
the ground. A shot had been fired from the roof of a nearby
building. Martin Luther King JR. had been assassinated. (Pg 26
People who helped the world : Martin Luther King JR.) Even though
Martin Luther King JR. had a great outcome with his speech, he
was assassinated which proves that he couldnt have been feared.
Everything Martin Luther King JR. did for his country was for a
reasonable purpose. He earned his peoples justly deserved
rights to unite with the white people. According to the book
People who helped the world : Martin Luther King JR. states If we
were wrong, the supreme court of this nation is wrong. If we were
wrong the constitution of the United States is wrong. If we were
wrong God Almighty is wrong. If we were wrong Jesus of Nazareth
was merely a utopian dreamer who never came down to Earth. If
we were wrong, Justice is a lie. Because of him each individual
person has their own independence today.
To continue, Franklin D. Roosevelt was also a loved leader.
He helped the people of the United States get through The Great
Depression that lasted for almost ten years. With the country
mired in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt
immediately acted to restore public confidence, proclaiming a
bank holiday and speaking directly to the public in a series of
radio broadcasts or fireside chats. His ambitious slate of New
Deal programs and reforms redefined the role of the federal
government in the lives of Americans. ( U.S. Presidents.org )
Even though The Great Depression were a rough ten years,
Roosevelt found a way to make the stocks increase again.
Roosevelt resorted peace in the economy after his creation of the

New Deal which led to more job employments and banks

reopening. Franklin D. Roosevelt is not a feared leader because
although people of the Great Depression suffered through
despairness for a long time leaving people with no jobs and no
money to support families with food, water, clothing, or shelter
President Roosevelt was elected as president to guide the people
through it. Since Roosevelt was elected during the end of the
Great Depression, there was a president before him who tried to
resolve the economys downfalls. That president was Herbert
Hoover. During Hoovers leadings in the Great Depression, Banks
failed; the nations money supply diminished; and companies
went bankrupt and began to fire their workers in droves.( U.S.
Presidents.org ) President Hoover tried many different ways to get
the economy going again but the Great Depression lasted for 10
years. When Hoover couldnt tie things together, the citizens
elected a president who could help the economy grow again
which was president Franklin D. Roosevelt. One of Roosevelt's
famous quotes were The only thing to fear is fear itself. This
quote means that the only thing one will fear is fear. Franklin D.
Roosevelt was trying to keep the economy calm and not panic
while experiencing the long - lasting Great Depression. This
makes Roosevelt a loved leader because if it werent for him, The
Great Depression could have lasted alot longer than ten years.
Lastly, the final leader who was also greatly loved was
Abraham Lincoln. He freed all African American slaves. According
to U.S. Presidents.org the website states His Emancipation
Proclamation, issued in 1863, freed all slaves in the rebellious
states and paved the way for slaverys eventual abolition, while
his Gettysburg Address later that year stands as one of the most
famous and influential pieces of oratory in American history.
(U.S. Presidents.org). In addition, Howard Zinn, Gore Vidal,and
Richard Hofstadter, who wrote in his classic 1948 book "The
American Political Tradition" that the Emancipation Proclamation
"had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading." The critics argue
that the Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free any
slaves. Lincoln "freed" the slaves, the argument goes, only where

he had no power inside the Confederacy. As the proclamation

put it, "slaves are, and henceforward shall be free," but only "in
the States and parts of States wherein the people are this day
in rebellion against the United States." In the slave states where
he did have power the border states that remained in the Union
Lincoln's Proclamation left slavery intact. Abraham Lincoln
believed that slaves should be emancipated, advocating a
program in which they would be freed gradually. Early in his
presidency, still convinced that gradual emacipation was the best
course, he tried to win over legistators. To gain support, he
proposed that slaveowners be compensated for giving up their
"property." Support was not forthcoming.In September of 1862,
Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the
rebellious states returned to the Union by January 1, freedom
would be granted to slaves within those states. The decree also
left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No
Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln
presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation
declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or
designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in
rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward,
and forever free." (History.org) The Emancipation Proclamation
didn't free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free
only those slaves living in states not under Union control.
However, Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by a man named
John W. Booth. As evidence, this website states In April 1865,
with the Union on the brink of victory, Abraham Lincoln was shot
and killed by the Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth; his
untimely death made him a martyr to the cause of liberty and
Union (U S Presidents.org). Furthermore, this quote proves that
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. According to History.org
states September 22 marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, in which he
declared that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in rebellion
against the Union "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever
free." Lincoln knew the right thing to do was to free innocent
slaves that deserved to live their life free just like everyone else
around them were. Although Abraham Lincoln had many
thoughtful actions and had made his county a better place, he

was assassinated by John W. Booth. This concludes that Abraham

Lincoln was not a feared leader.
Therefore, Martin Luther King JR., Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
Abraham Lincoln were all loved leaders because they benefited
their people in a way to improve the world. Each and everything
that these leaders did individually helped create the world we live
in today. They all brought people from different cultures together,
supported the country when stocks were low, and freed slaves. If
it werent for these three loved leaders than the world today
would have resulted differently.