Nonviolent Resistance: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. believed in also practiced nonviolent resistance because he understood that was the way of life. In the 1966’s that year initiated the first public encounter to the philosophy and approach of nonviolence within the civil right movement. During the deadly racist violence against the nonviolent workers embraced Dr. King’s commitment to nonviolence as a total way of life and inviable ideologies. Many of activists were willing to use peaceful protest and there were the fearful men who would not join the nonviolent movement because they would not remain nonviolent if attacked. He mentions violence is a strategy for social change in American is “nonexistent” and all of the daring talk and wrath produces no action and signifies
However, they also had their difference for example Dr. King was integrationist and a perpetual advocate of nonviolence resistance; as oppose to Malcom where he believed that integration would destroy black and white man. Malcolm X indicated “the time for you and me to allow ourselves to be brutalized nonviolently is passé”, being nonviolently was outdated since they had been through brutal violence for over decades. Malcolm X’s certainty within violence was to be nonviolent only with those are nonviolent to you. What Malcolm X meant by Black Nationalism is that all of the revolution that had taken place before like the American Revolution and French revolution were all white nationalism; and therefore all the revolutions that are going on in Asia and Africa are based on-Black Nationalism. He learned that people from Asia and Africa are not white in fact different, which dominates and strengthens the Black Nationalism. His global travels showed Malcolm X about the basic need for global resistance carrying out together domestic struggles for African American for equal rights with the freedom struggles of Third World