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Martin Luther King was a black Baptist minister who wanted to end the oppression of black people in the USA in the 1950s and 60s. He felt the time had come to take a stand against the racial injustice he saw all around him.
He believed it was important for black people to gain the right to vote using peaceful protests.
Martin Luther King on violence
Martin Luther King said violence wasn’t the way to solve the problem, for several reasons:
Impractical
It humiliates your opponent.
It doesn’t help people understand you.
It leads to more destruction.
It thrives on hatred.
Immoral
“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.” (MLK)