And somehow, barbarism is the quickest way to stop being belittled by others. In my opinion it's wrong. First of all, if you want to gain rights of equality and respect, violence is not a convincing method because it would contradict your rights to freedom. We might as well look back to the American civil rights movement, which leader Martin Luther King most advocated for was nonviolence. “We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.”6 Violence is rude; violence is irrational; violence is against humanity. It would leave you in a passive position for lack of reason, so you couldn't get any respect. Furthermore, what violence brings us is always negative. There are some events in America caused by racial discrimination. The most mentioned is the Los Angeles riots of 1992. It is exactly the event recounted at the beginning of Freedom Writers and it is also the most horrific violent event to have occurred in America. It may have been a catalyst for those non-white kids who hated other ethnic people, because the protest event occurred right around them, in Long Beach. Widespread riots caused truly ferocious damage. In this event, “In total, 53 people were killed during the clashes and over 2,000 were injured.”7 Approximately $8-10 billion in property was lost and over 1,000 homes were burned. As if that wasn't enough, around 10,000 people were arrested. How disastrous it will be to use violence to solve racial problems! As Gandhi said: “I oppose violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The harm it does is