![]() “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” - “ I Have a Dream” speech, 1963 made it his life’s calling to lead the Black community out of the adversity they had endured and into a future of true freedom. The mid-twentieth century was an important precipice in American history regarding civil rights. “When you are right you cannot be too radical when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.” - Why We Can’t Wait, 1964 “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” - Stride Toward Freedom Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” - Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963 We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is a sword that heals.” - Nobel Lecture, 1964 Indeed, it is a weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. “Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. “It is no longer the choice between violence and nonviolence it is now either nonviolence or nonexistence” - “ The American Dream” speech at Lincoln University, 1961 By responding to violent suppression with civil disobedience, his message was able to carry much farther than the streets he walked. was inspired by other activists who wrote about and practiced nonviolent resistance. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
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