Writing does have the power to enact social change depending upon what the writing actually is. A lot of writings tend to change the way people go about their lives especially if it’s on topics that the reader can relate to. Words are highly powerful.
The Bible for example is a big book of writings that indeed enacts social change. The bible changes the way Christians go about their everyday lives and the way they interact with other people. Christians see the Bible as something they hold close to them. Regardless of being a sinner or not, at the end of the day they will shift their life around the Bible and do according to what’s said to be right and wrong in it.
King spoke out in several of his speeches. It may not have enacted social change at the time but in the long run it has. It made people think about their just and unjust ways of abiding by the law. It made others have the same way of thinking in which others tended to help carry out the same message with other powerful words.
After looking through the poems on the website the poem “Speak Out,” really stood out to me especially with this topic. Words bring change and speaking out can make a difference. When no one speaks out nothing can get accomplished. With a lot that’s going on in the world today can be stopped by many people choose not to speak up. Speaking up can only help for the better.
With words, there can be change. Writing does have the power to enact social change whether it is good or bad. Words play on mental mindsets which causes change to occur. Words have the power to change anything.
