Martin Luther King Jr Influence

When examining Martin Luther King Jr.’s peacebuilding work, he be perceived as a powerful individual. In the beginning years of his life, he witnessed a magnitude of mistreatment towards his race. It was because of those oppressions that he wanted to call for a change. As an adult Martin Luther King Jr. battled against racial inequalities peacefully. Martin’s idea of peace was to bring the races together equally and nonviolently. He exercised this belief in many ways, one being his well-known walk on Washington in 1963. Martin also organized many nonviolent protests for the civil right movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s peacebuilding was also the leading cause of many changes in the United States, and can be seen in many ways today. However,
influenced the idea of overall peace in the world in many ways, and led to America becoming less violent. When he led the march on Washington, he made the idea of segregation appalling. Martin was also the leading cause to many changes in laws in America. “He was the driving force behind watershed events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington, which helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965” (History.com). The main idea behind all of Martin Luther King Jr.’s work is peace. His tactics for protesting segregation, were to be nonviolent because he did not believe violence would create anything but more violence. “In Dr. King’s words, ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction… The chain reaction of evil–hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars–must be broken or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation” (P.M.). Martin Luther King Jr. wanted a peaceful world, where everyone was equal. While he wanted to end, the humiliation implicated on his race, he also craved for America to come together. Martin made it possible for America to eventually reach the full equality that everyone deserved. It is because of his contributions that the world today has become
Martin’s early life influenced him to fight for peace in his adult life. After witnessing and experiencing segregation first hand, he took his anger and challenged the law. His long road to equality started by accepting the leading role of the African American civil rights movement. The main thing he was known for during this movement include the march on Washington in 1963. In the course of this march, Martin gave his well-known ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. His speech became well known and even in today’s time people are still studying it. Martin Luther King Jr. can be seen as an important figure for peacebuilding because of the things he was willing to do. Even though he was putting himself into danger, he was still willing to stand up for what he believed in. Martin also did not want to stand up for his beliefs in a violent way. While leading the African American civil rights movement, Martin enforced the idea of nonviolent protests. Which forced viewers to see well respected African Americans being arrested for absurd reasons. Although Martin Luther King Jr. created a more peaceful outlook for African Americans, the world still needs to change. His definition of peace would be having a world of equality and nonviolence. Which in today’s time is not fully met, when riots are occurring and the ‘black lives matter’ movement is being exercised. Even though America still needs