Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential civil rights activist, during the late 50’s and early 60’s. MLK Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His father, Martin Luther King Sr., was a church pastor, who King saw standup to segregation in his early life, Another influential person to MLK was Mahatma Gandhi, who led a nonviolent movement that freed India from British Colonial rule. Strategies that Martin Luther King Jr. used to confront segregation were organized groups and speeches that would bring people together to fight in order to end segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. Speeches were one of the biggest influences towards bringing people together to fight for civil rights According to, Martin Luther King Jr. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed”(Document 2). …show more content…
He wanted the country to see how this inequality can be solved. Furthermore, Martin Luther King Jr. states that “With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedom together. Knowing that we will be free one day”(Document 2). King knew that they had many barriers to go through, but eventually they would succeed. All he simply wanted was equality. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent strategy showed that violence isn't the solution to what he wanted to achieve. Martin Luther King Jr. states that “Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater”. But it doesn't murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn't solve any problems”(Document 8). King knows that violence isn't doing anything, it's just going to bring more violence. He knew that violence would just bring more hate towards the