Martin Luther King Nonviolence Analysis

The philosophy of Martin Luther King has six principles of nonviolence. The first is nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. Someone that is non violent only because they are afraid, is not a true form of non violence. Kings second principle of nonviolence is nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding. An example is a community that comes together after a peaceful protest or a boycott. His third principle is nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice not people. In other words, the people should seek to get rid of the hatred in communities in a non violent way, but by no means should they attack another person who was following the hatred. The fourth states that nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform meaning that, the suffering that whole communities go through can cause them to come together and educate themselves on the matter at hand. In addition to transforming a community into a place of unity and assistance for those who need it. King's fifth principle says nonviolence chooses love instead of hate. To put it another way a person who exercises King's nonviolent principles would not harm a person, but they would also not hate them. His final principle is nonviolence believed that the universe is on the side of justice. King …show more content…
There are many reasons why this is, but it is greatly because of how extraordinary of a speaker and philosopher he was. Truly Dr.King has become someone to look up to just as he looked up to Jesus and Ghandi. Even to this day people recite King's speeches and follow his six principles, they even have a day for him. Thanks to his philosophies and contributions to the Civil Rights movement the world is a better place than 50 years ago. Although we may have a ways to go till we reach complete peace, but if everyone goes out and spreads love and peace and no violence there is absolutely no reason to why we will never reach