Self-reliance is a difficult concept; to be truly self-reliant one must do and believe only what is in their hearts. In society, there is a constant struggle with beliefs that are not the standard. Those individuals who stray from the standard are shunned thus forced caused to conform to society. The true struggle of an individual is between himself and society. There is a constant struggle within man between his beliefs, and the constraints society …showed first 75 words of 1695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1695 total…in preaching nonconformity. Even though he showed that in the struggle between ones self and society, society wins most of the time, but man only needs that one time for the individual to stand up, for him to be considered a great man. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for only one cause, and that was to stop the oppression of the African Americans, and now he is one of those great men in history.