Ways Of Meeting Oppression
Fighting for Equality Through Nonviolent Resistance
In “The Ways of Meeting Oppression”, an excerpt from a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dr. King explains that the oppressed deal with oppression in one of three ways; acceptance, the use of physical force and hostility, and non violent resistance. He begins that through acceptance, people succumb to their fates as they are either exhausted and have given up fighting, or they have become accustomed to their circumstances and see no need for change. He elaborates that through acceptance, the oppressed are indeed the cause of their own oppression. Dr. King demonstrates that acceptance is allowing and proving one’s own inferiority while enabling and
In “The Ways of Meeting Oppression”, an excerpt from a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dr. King explains that the oppressed deal with oppression in one of three ways; acceptance, the use of physical force and hostility, and non violent resistance. He begins that through acceptance, people succumb to their fates as they are either exhausted and have given up fighting, or they have become accustomed to their circumstances and see no need for change. He elaborates that through acceptance, the oppressed are indeed the cause of their own oppression. Dr. King demonstrates that acceptance is allowing and proving one’s own inferiority while enabling and