question archive For our final discussion of this semester, I ask you to consider the aims and methods of Martin Luther King
For our final discussion of this semester, I ask you to consider the aims and methods of Martin Luther King
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For our final discussion of this semester, I ask you to consider the aims and methods of Martin Luther King. In this module, I provide summaries of the major ideas in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture. I also provide links to the complete texts of these two documents. These two documents give the essentials of King's political and religious views. In his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," he emphasized the necessity of social change. He told us how we can know if a law is unjust, and spelled out the principles of using nonviolent disobedience as a means of making social change happen. He affirmed that the goals of nonviolent resistance were not only to seek justice but to seek reconciliation, to bring people to acknowledge that all people were part of one great community. In his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, King expanded his vision of social change to include not only an end to racism but also an end to poverty and war. He asserted that human beings could accomplish these changes, and was cautiously optimistic that humanity would do so. With these ideas in mind, what do you think? Do
