Martin Luther King Jr.'s Philosophy Of Nonviolence

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta Georgia .1 He was brought up in a middle-class family that held the tradition of Baptist ministry; as a youth, Martin Luther King Jr.’s father was a pastor for the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he taught the Christian faith and the sense of commitment to the black community.2 Hearing his father preach as a young boy about the faith of Jesus gave Martin Luther King Jr. exposure to publicly speaking. He learned early on how to encourage staying loyal to faith when crisis occurs in the black community. This taught him how to connect on a larger scale with the people in the public, so that he could later on gain support in a common goal such as raising awareness for inequality.
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and several others used nonviolence acts such as sit-ins, boycotts, protests, and marches to vocalize their suffering.9These acts were used to demand equal pay for jobs, the right to vote and to eliminate segregation in all areas still containing segregation. As Martin Luther King Jr. studied Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence and the word of Jesus Christ, these two concepts collided together in Martin’s mind while he created his own political strategies.10 Martin Luther King Jr. learned that Mahatma Gandhi used the spiritual power of Jesus to connect to the social life of individuals. As Jesus being a motivator, it helped to maintain the energy directed towards the fight for equal human …show more content…
King also said, “When we work to remedy one evil, we affect all evils.” To work against the Triple Evils, you must develop a nonviolent frame of mind as described in the “Six Principles of Nonviolence” Martin Luther King Jr. learned nonviolence movements through Gandhi and use the Kingian model for social action outlined in the “Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change” (The King Center).
The first of six nonviolent principles established by Dr. King was “Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people” (The King Center). Nonviolence is believed to be a moral virtue that goes against human nature to be aggressive and defensive. Martin Luther King Jr. presented himself as a peacemaker; he believed that when an individual would show hate or aggressiveness towards him because of his race he obtained peace at all times. By using peace in his method he showed control over the situation. He would not allow the desired response to occur. Dr. King believed that the first