Thursday, June 4, 2015

A great man who was inspired by Gandhi was Martin Luther King Jr. who was a great leader in the civil rights movement as well as Gandhi, he believed in nonviolence to capture the respect of the nation. Who didn’t stop at nothing until his dream was reached. he was killed for fighting back and believing and defending everything he lived for but just like he said " A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live" in contrary he died a man fighting for his rights till the very end, he died for justice and equal treatment.

 In Martin Luther King Junior Letter From Birmingham City Jail open letter king stated " A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of god". an unjust law is no law at all, it’s a law out to hurt others and only benefit some. A law is meant to be an equal understanding which is held liable equally when it has been broken. even when king was arrested he was still able to get his message across peacefully without resulting to violence.
            They were able to use education and being civilized at the same time when they were committing civil disobedience. Both Gandhi and King never resulted to violence, when surely violence was being used against them. They encouraged their people not to result to violence. they used words and actions as a way of being heard.
Civil disobedience doesn’t mean losing one’s temper and going crazy but being able to gather ones selves and thoughts while using words instead of violence to get things done. they say "fight fire with fire" but well that’ll just make things worse one must know how to communicate in order to be taken seriously.

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