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Martin Luther King Jr Embracing Non Violence

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David Iturralde Mrs. Lendsey English 9A March 11, 2024 Embracing Non-violence Embracing non-violence is a way to see a sympathetic world filled with peace and love. In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s acceptance speech, it gives us messages to really think about. The messages King communicates in his speech are very important for us to remember and pass down. After sharing many experiences and gathering many ways for us to have peace, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. communicates these messages so we can spread them for us to follow and remember. At the beginning of King’s speech, he shares logical reasons to help explain to people that violence is not the answer and can be solved in another way. Violence is impractical because all it does is end in destruction, …show more content…

King is trying to say that there are other ways to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to it. This is a good thing to remember, if you ever feel the need to be violent you can try to overcome it in another way. When you aren’t violent, it results in a good ending instead of possibly digging yourself inside a hole. King also communicates this message by. “Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.” (page 2). Nonviolence leads to justice and is a more effective path to social change. If we all overcome violence, we can live in peace and not worry about it. A second message communicated in King’s speech is love will be spread and he gives us images of how we will all help each other and come together. Giving people an image of how the world would look like is a great way to communicate his message because people will actually think about it. One way King communicates this message is. “Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.” (page

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