Pros And Cons Of Martin Luther King Jr

In this life, many hope for peace, but not many try to achieve it. According to Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, there are many ways to achieve this, but the best possible course of action would be through nonviolent direct action, which includes but is not limited to: peaceful protest, sit-ins and civil disobedience. In King’s letter, he proclaims his reasoning behind nonviolent direct action, including: the concept that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (par. 4), extremism can be used positively (par. 22), and the fact that “oppressed people will not stay oppressed forever” (par. 24). King uses literary devices including ethos, logos, and pathos to prove and reaffirm that which he is trying to convey.

To understand King’s views on nonviolent protest, I will start by summarizing some of the main points in his “Letter from Birmingham jail”. In spite of the fact that the "Letter” is verifiably worried with justice all through, King likewise addresses the question specifically at a few focuses. In actuality, he places that justice maintains the poise of the human soul, while injustice conflicts with it. By talking about this idea by and large, he builds up criteria by which to obscurely assault both segregation and silence it. He at last suggests that the man who sees injustice and does nothing to stop it is acting unjustly also. Taking after this thought, he contends that laws must be permeated with an ethical sense so as to be just; as such, law and morality can not be viewed as independent interests or areas. The best way to really enact change and help humankind rise above its confinements is to act with as well as grasp “extremism”. According to Mott, “That this action had been termed “extreme” King admits “initially disappointed” him.” But King decides that if loyalty to good principles

King uses irony, by giving examples of him using peaceful actions that were condemned anyway because they were said to ?precipitate violence?. He went on to say, ?Isn?t that like condemning a robbed man because his possession of money precipitated in the evil act of robbery??(King 563). Dr. King also realizes that the white moderates are mostly religious. He reminds them ?Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability, it comes through tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God??(King 563). Again, he urges the audience to get up and become active, and that there will be no change without their action.

King is too idealistic with his approach. When dealing with racism and oppression, one must deal with it pragmatically because it is a serious issue. Malcolm X said a person with self respect will stand up against oppression and disrespect against him/herself because if they don’t, “their children will look at them and think “shame”. Dr. King certainly would sympathize with Malcolm X’s thinking that witnessing racial discrimination and oppression and he wouldn’t wait patiently either, but he would tell Malcolm X: one thing. He believes that a self-respecting human being will die for his rights. For Malcolm, it is better for him “to rather die than let someone oppress him”. Again, the theme here is that non-violence does not distinguish the individual as a person or self-respecting human being. Non-violence doesn’t distinguish you at all. It is the stance of any means necessary that distinguishing you as someone to be reckoned with. How do you demonstrate to others that you are a person and that you have genuine self-respect? You let them know that you will do whatever it takes, even if you may die in the process, to end the oppression; “I would rather die than let you oppress

While in jail, King wrote the famous Letter From Birmingham Jail. In this letter he addressed the criticisms people had about the Civil Rights movement and what was taking place. He sheds light on the “nonviolent action” that created tension, but that needed to be done in order for change to happen. He stated that nonviolent action would create necessary tension that would make the oppressors notice. King explains that tension isn’t necessarily a bad thing and it doesn’t have to be violent; instead he believed that there was a kind of “nonviolent tension” necessary for the growth of the nation. There was already tension but it was not talked about or brought up. King explained that the way to bring this tension to the surface was through the

To begin with, we must use nonviolence to achieve freedom based on the article "Letter from Birmingham Jail" King argued "my friend I must say to you that we have not me a civil right without determine a nonviolent pressure" this demonstrates that king wants to achieve freedom in a nonviolent manner. In addition King states "actually we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is

To begin with, one must use non-violent means to find a peaceful solution in order to achieve true freedom and defend their civil rights. According to “Letter from Birmingham Jail” King expressed that “my friend and I must say to you that we have not made a civil right without determined legal non-violent pressure.” This shows how King wants to secure civil rights with using non-violence methods. Furthermore, King also stated, “to deny citizens the first amendment privilege of peace assembly and protest.” This reveals that when King protested he protested to secure his civil rights by using nonviolent methods.

In the sense that King and his organization promotes nonviolent action. He and his team believe that the strongest way to promote their message is to not retaliate to the backlash that they receive. Dr. King states in his letter that “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is force to confront the issue”. Dr. King had followed in the footsteps of Socrates and also Mohandas Gandhi which had both portrayed that non-violence is the way to get your point across and fighting fire with fire is never the answer.

He believed that “normal and healthy discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action” (“Letter” 30). It is understandable that blacks were enraged with the way they were mistreated for years. King felt this rage should be channeled into proactive ways to change the way blacks were viewed. He goes on to say “If your repressed emotions are not released in non-violent ways, they will seek expression through violence” (“Letter” 30). King encouraged black people to feel, to be upset, and then fight for the freedom that blacks deserved.

Take a look at the world around us. All around the world there is violence from as big as the war in Syria to as little as gang fights in downtown Chicago. In 1963, during the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech with nonviolent words and peace. Yet, Dr. King was shot years after his speech and unfortunately passed away. A peace promoter and peacemaker was assassinated all because of a man who was frustrated and made the choice to resort to violence.

In the sense that King and his organization promotes nonviolent action. He and his team believe that the strongest way to promote their message is to not retaliate to the backlash that they receive. Dr. King states in his letter that “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue”. Dr. King had followed in the footsteps of Socrates and also Mohandas Gandhi which had both portrayed that non-violence is the way to get your point across and fighting fire with fire is never the answer.

Family units in my society are typically created by marriage, enforced positively by love, support and children, while also enforced through the negative stigmas surrounding divorce and the implied child abandonment. Pros to this method are that children, in theory, can grow up in a full family setting, with perceived love and support from both parental units simultaneously. The cons to this seem to far outweigh the pros in my opinion though, as unhappy marriages and/or unfit parents can have a negative effect on children and disrupt their childhood, all the while creating a miserable life for the ones that are unhappily married. I feel that the storyteller’s usage of mythical language to approve the blue crane’s actions is an interesting

That is why King's nonviolence was so effective because the oppressor(whites) became the bullies which went against the imagery of Blacks as "Thugs" therefore made America look not so unified to the rest of the world which only strengthen the African American movement and the views of America as the land of terror. This revolution was no joke for submission. The negros decided to no longer put up with the system taking away their god given rights as Americans, regardless the color of their skin. They decided that this delay will not be further allowed to take away the future generation, the negro child educational opportunity and moral freedom away. In 1963 king talks about the negro revolution has a moral action that seeks to better the black individual from the oppression, in justice and discrimination, and blames the law system for this uprising.

The Spanish proverb, “Live with wolves and you learn to howl,” shows that if a person is surrounded by bad people then they will turn into a bad person, and if they surround themselves with good people they will be a good person. Look at Trump supporters, they’re surrounded by aggressive and gullible people, so gullible that they believe that the election is rigged instead of doing their research and seeing that whenever Trump loses he just pulls the rigged card (and there are only 31 reports of voter fraud), and the smart people who were only following Trump because they don't agree with Clinton are starting to turn into these people. Proverbs like this can be associated with many events and people, examples of this are Martin Luther King Jr., The KKK, The Jungle

King uses a “peace and love” style of protest. The letter which king wrote (King) defends his strategy to a nonviolent resistance to racism. He answers the forces of hatred with nonviolent resistance in the pursuit of what he called the "beloved community." (Kasson). He also insisted that nonviolent direct resistance was not a surrender but a “spiritually strenuous confrontation of injustice and oppression”. In this process, however, protesters aimed not "to defeat or humiliate their opponents, but to win their friendship and understanding." As King tirelessly insisted, "The end is redemption and reconciliation. The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness”. “I want you to love our enemies. Be good to them. Love them and let them know you love them. For what we are doing is right. What we are doing is just. And God is with us" (Kasson). By using an approach of