preview

Martin Luther King Informative Essay

Decent Essays

Martin Luther King. Courageous, Bold, loyal, passionate. These are just few of many words that I think of when I think of Dr. Martin Luther King. King was a great leader. He did everything in his power to fight for civil rights for African-Americans. But in doing so it came with a price. The Civil rights movement was a very harsh time period in the 1960’s. African Americans were not given the basic human rights of an American. They could not eat, drink, and use the bathroom in the same place as whites. They were denied the right to vote, they were lynched, not hired for jobs simply because of their skin color. But in came everybody’s hero... Martin Luther King Jr. King was tired of being discriminated against for his skin color and decided …show more content…

King was very against non violence he wanted nothing to do with it. And On November 14, 1966 he showed us why he was against it while he gave a speech to an angry staff at a retreat. “Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but is doesn’t murder the hate. It may increase the hate.” King is telling this staff that even if we were to kill somebody who hates us it won’t kill any hate within anybody it will only make the hate grow. And if they choose violence it will reflect very bad on all african americans. Martin Luther King gives a quote that states “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that, Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” This quote by king is so powerful because it hopefully sparks a change in african americans to stop all of the violence. And will hopefully switch everybody's mindset about violence. Also, if black people were hateful towards the white man (and some were) it would only make things worse because you can’t hate somebody just as they hate you and expect things to settle. Secondly, Martin Luther King was an effective leader because he was very smart in how he fought for civil rights. He began to boycott all companies that did not hire black

Get Access