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Praised be Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Martin Luther King, Jr., presented his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech when I was just four months old. When he was shot dead on April 4, 1968, I was only five years old, and he was only thirty-nine. I have been very positively influenced by the nonviolent path in fighting for social justice from Gandhi and Martin Luther King, How did they take up and stay on the nonviolent path? For both, their deeply-held religious beliefs helped them on that path. For Gandhi -- writes Radhika Rao --he was also influenced by the non-violence of his mother and of Tolstoy, and the civil disobedience message of Rousseau. Martin Luther King, Jr., was heavily influenced by Gandhi's non-violent path, starting with Mordecai Johnson's discussion of Gandhi at King's college...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).