Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

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Comment by Tony Nuspl on March 31, 2010 at 7:15pm

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Principles of Nonviolence

1) Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.

* It is active nonviolent resistance to evil.
* It is assertive spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.
* It is always persuading the opponent of the justice of your cause.

2) Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.

* The end result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation.
* The purpose of nonviolence is the creation of the Beloved Community.

3) Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people.

* Nonviolence holds that evildoers are also victims.

4) Nonviolence holds that voluntary suffering can educate and transform.

* Nonviolence willingly accepts the consequences of its acts.
* Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation.
* Nonviolence accepts violence if necessary, but will never inflict it.
* Unearned suffering is redemptive and has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities.
* Suffering can have the power to convert the enemy when reason fails.

5) Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.

* Nonviolence resists violence of the spirit as well as of the body.
* Nonviolent love gives willingly, knowing that the return might be hostility.
* Nonviolent love is active, not passive.
* Nonviolent love does not sink to the level of the hater.
* Love for the enemy is how we demonstrate love for ourselves.
* Love restores community and resists injustice.
* Nonviolence recognizes the fact that all life is interrelated.

6) Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.

* The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win.

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Comment by Tony Nuspl on January 24, 2010 at 6:10pm

Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80Bsw0UG-U
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Quote from this speech on Vietnam (1967):

MLK said:

There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark," but will curse and damn you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children."

~Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia (1967-04-30)