Summary Of Dr King The Ways Of Meeting Oppression

In Dr. King’s “The Ways of Meeting Oppression”, King reveals his argument for the path that he chose in confronting oppression of African American’s during the civil rights movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s in the United States. The first path King talks about is that of the oppressed accepting their fate, or potentially worse, fighting against change that would improve their lives. King likened this path to the oppressed and the oppressor being equally at fault for the oppression. The second path King describes is the extreme opposite of the first, and that is change through violence. King argues that change through violence is a temporary change and that it doesn’t get to the core of the issue, the enlightenment of the oppressor. The