Injustice In A Nonviolent Campaign: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“In any nonviolent campaign, there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustice exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.” This is one of the strongest quotes within the context of the letter, due to the fact that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. followed an established, concrete and logical plan to a non violent campaign. “Collection of the facts to determine whether injustice exists”. Luther explains how Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the nation. Segregating the Negroes in every way possible in their daily actions. Segregated public transportation between negroes and white, segregated schools between negroes and white, segregated sidewalks between negroes and white. The word segregated was used innumerable times where it was followed by the adjectives “negroes and white”. He stated all the facts for the conclusion that an unjust system was …show more content…
Augustine: “an unjust law is no law at all”; stating that unjust law and segregation “gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority”. After obtaining all the facts he pursued to negotiation. He negotiated with leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights to stop any demonstration of a racial act. A broken promise was all he gained from that negotiation, at that point he had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, but not first without self-purification. This in my opinion is one of the strongest traits about this whole plan. The negroes where accused of not being well educated citizens amongst a community, ironic; due to the fact that they were the ones who were educating themselves in a verbal and nonviolent manner. Which I believe was extremely difficult for them after all the oppression they've endured. Luther taught them to fight with their words, not with their fists; to think rationally, even when in