Doctor Martin Luther King Junior was not simply a great oratory minister, nor was he merely a protagonist for American civil rights. Instead, he was a proponent of worldwide civil liberties. Implementing the Gandhian philosophy of non-violent civil action he led a movement that overwhelmed the pivotal segregationists’ stronghold of Alabama. Strategically, it was seen as the capital of Southern racial divide. Consequently, the victory in Alabama sent reverberations throughout the south and echoed a painful defeat to the racially schismatic statutes of the southern states.
His leadership proved that the most aggressive attack is often not the most physically combative. The hands of patience and discipline can be more decisive than the teeth of vicious canines, the pressure of fire hoses, the blow of nightsticks, and police brutality combined. Much respect to Doctor King, a figurehead in an ongoing struggle to balance social inequities. Read more about Doctor King, as written by himself in his profound book, Why We Can’t Wait. +
