Essay Archive - Nonviolent Resistance
Nonviolent Resistance
In Martin Luther King, Jr.'s selection, Nonviolent Resistance
which first appeared in 1958 as a part of his book Stride Towards Freedom,
he describes the processes people follow as they confront their situation.
There are three ways he explained how oppressed people can deal with their
situation. The different processes that are opened to the oppressed people
are acquiescence, violence, and nonviolent resistance. Martin Luther King,
Jr. does not approve the first two processes because they are both immoral
and impractical.
He absolutely detests the process of acquiescence because it means
that the Negroes a....
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