Freedom fighter Martin Luther King sought out to put an end to this discrimination against blacks. After receiving his doctorate in theology from Boston University in 1955, King became a pastor at a church in Montgomery, Alabama. As the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King organized many marches, boycotts, and sit-ins. ... King who is a very religious man often mentions passages from the bible, for instance he says " he is in Birmingham because injustice is here" and then compares it to when the Apostle Paul left his hometown to go to other parts of the world to spre...

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Martin Luther King Junior's appeal to the clergymen's decisions was a concise, and effective statement, which conveys the reasons for, and the process in which civil disobedience can be put in action. ... King balances being brutally honest without sounding harsh and demanding in a way which gains attention and demands to be listened to. In King's essay, the most effective tool he uses is rationality. ... King strengthens his argument by presenting opinions in a factual form, and by using statistics and realities of the inequalities surrounding him. ... King also gains ...

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If one could name two of the most important and iconic African American activist they would probably name Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. ... Martin Luther King lived in a middle class section of Atlanta Georgia, his father was a minister. ... King's ideas, although he did not advocate violence or hate, his arguments against King reflected what he thought African Americans needed to do to break segregation. Malcolm argued against King's non-violent resistant approach even stating that, Dr. King was a "modern Uncle Tom". ...

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The relationship between Socrates and Martin Luther King The similarities between Martin Luther King and Socrates are so close that it's hard to imagine that either could have come up with their ideas alone. I believe as King quoted Socrates with, " it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal to the majestic heights of understanding," King stemmed his beliefs and strong arguments from ideas of fellow extremists. When reading King's ...

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Martin Luther King addressed issues in his book "I Need a Dream" which he felt must be changed within America so as to be considered the great nation of which he dreamt. ... In his book, Martin Luther King talks strongly against inequality with reference to the racial discrimination. King felt that the blacks were also supposed to be given an opportunity to become better people. ... Due to this inequality, Luther narrates how he had to suffer through his education just to become what he wanted. ... King also believed in a better future. ...

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Contributions to the achieved success of the Civil Rights campaigners were enriched by these methods and facts: Martin Luther Kings campaigning methods and non-violent policies, peaceful protest with little violence from protestors in early stages, opposing protestors being viewed as immoral, and black Americans having moral high ground. ... Martin Luther King's methods and policies were a great contribution to the success of civil rights campaigners, his policy of non-violent civil disobedience was a goal scorer for civil campaigners as this method pressured the state authorities and Fed...

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The speech "I Have a Dream," by Martin Luther King, Jr. utilises an imaginary journey to enlighten of a vision for a united country. ... Similarly to Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country" and Skrzynecki's "Crossing the Red Sea," the speech "I Have a Dream," delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, enlightens the audience and incites moral growth through an inner and imaginary journey. ... "I Have a Dream" takes the audience on an imaginary journey through a memory of the past of oppression and injustice to King's prayer ...

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With the help of visionaries like Martin Luther King, John Lennon, and Mahatma Gandhi, just to name a few, a large segment of the American population was empowered to question the grim realities of the world around them, to ask "Can we not do better than this?" ... This leader is Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential candidate, and he is tirelessly working to pick up where Martin Luther King left off, only this time with the full power of the US Presidency. ...

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Vita historical events are adequate examples of how individual behavior affects society and culture; Martin Luther King, Jr. was an advocate for equal rights of blacks and whites and because of his multiple protests and advances to change the law and condition of blacks. ...

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Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. ... In the face of white intransigence, King spoke of the moral arc of the universe being long, but ultimately bending towards justice. ... Even King, though he never repudiated nonviolence, began to question the effectiveness of such tactics in the face of America's social, political, and economic violence towards Black people. ... James Cone, in his landmark study, Martin and Malcolm and America, lays out Malcolm X's challenge to King's philosophy of nonviolence, which emphasized that white America would never be persuaded to tr...

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Nonviolence ideology is mostly based on Gandhi's and Martin Luther King, Jr. ideas which avoid not only external violence, but also internal violence (Menno Simons College. 2012/2013, p.401). Also, I strongly believe that people can achieve what they want without being violent and aggressive the same as Gandhi and King said; moreover, nonviolent actions highlight our humanity and intellectual superiority over wild animals. ...

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