History Now Essay The Will to Be Free: On the Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Thuy Vo Dang Government and Civics, World History In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote that “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” [1] His letter addressed his fellow clergymen amidst the... Appears in: 61 | The Declaration of Independence and the Origins of Self-Determination in the Modern World Fall 2021