PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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because he feared that using violence would cause African Americans to abandon their political goals
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because he believed that protestors should act lovingly toward their oppressors
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because he concluded that African Americans were too few in number to use violence effectively
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because he thought that African Americans had used violence unsuccessfully in the past
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Detailed explanation-1: -King believed that the age-old tradition of hating one’s opponents was not only immoral, but bad strategy which perpetuated the cycle of revenge and retaliation. Only nonviolence, he believed, had the power to break the cycle of retributive violence and create lasting peace through reconciliation.
Detailed explanation-2: -While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary, ” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals.
Detailed explanation-3: -Philosophy of nonviolence In contrast, the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement chose the tactic of nonviolence as a tool to dismantle institutionalized racial segregation, discrimination, and inequality.