Martin Luther king the Human Rights Activist Martin Luther king used civil disobedeince to oppose racial segregation in the American South (Altman 60). “King echoed the message of Gandhi and Thoreau: that nonviolent resistance is fighting back. Like Gandhi, King was not happy with the phrase “passive resistance”. He believed that it gave the false impression that the resister quietly and passively accepts evil. But nothing is further from the truth the method is passive physically, but strongly active spiritually. It is active nonviolent resistance to evil”. (Altman 70) “Abraham Lincoln althought president Abraham Lincoln and Dr. King fought for equality during entirely different eras, they both fought for a common goal:
