Martin Luther King Jr Actions Analysis

Exploring the Role of Christian Ethics in Martin Luther King’s Jr. Actions. Throughout history, the United States has been the arriving place for many immigrants searching for a better life, seeing America as the land of endless opportunities. With hopes and dreams of giving their children a better home an upbringing. Today we thank Martin Luther King Jr. a man whose dream of equality and human rights has change the course of history. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Immigration is about human dignity and the nobility of parents of different tribes and nations facing the risk of coming to a foreign land, a land of opportunity, to work for a better tomorrow for their children.” Dr. King invoked the truth, the truth being that all humans ought

came in a time where people of color had no rights to vote, to sit in front of the bus, the right to a decent job, the opportunity to a quality education, and most of all they were not regarded as being equal to other race, such as Caucasians (Argosy University, 2015). In his letter to the clergy, Dr. King clearly explains how difficult it was for people of color to function in a society in which they were treated as less than humans compare to those of white color. With the ugly record of brutality, uncivilized unjust treatment, and the unsolved bombings to homes and churches of people of color Dr. King made his visit to Birmingham to address the issue of injustice by organizing a peaceful protest. With so many broken promises, hope gone and the shadow of disappointment settling upon them (Argosy University, 2015), Dr. King no longer believe in negotiation. His only option was a peaceful street protest and civil disobedience that will bring concerned leaders at the time to

He was not advocating for anything else, but the very basic human’s right that was denied to colored people for way too long (King, Martin Luther, Jr. and Rachel's Democracy & Health News, 2006). Martin Luther King not only used Judeo- Christian principles to validate his motives for the peaceful protests, but also to allow civil disobedience by those unhappy with the law system and those in charge. Although, he was there to protest the injustice in Birmingham it didn’t change the fact that there where other communities in the south where many people of colored where being treated in the same horrific way.
According to Dr. Martin Luther King, any form of peaceful demonstration has four steps: collections of the facts in order to determine if injustice exists, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action (King, Martin Luther, Jr. and Rachel's Democracy & Health News, 2006). Dr. King could no longer allow for injustice to happen, he had seen the injustice, has waited to negotiate with those in charge and this had let to a peaceful