Dr. Martin Luther King's Three Ways Of Meeting Oppression

An Analysis of Martin Luther King’s “3 ways of meeting oppression”
In the excerpt, Dr. Martin Luther King list the 3 ways of meeting oppression. The first being acquiescence. The second is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred, and the third is nonviolent resistance. Dr. King mentions three ways, but he only endorses the third. He mentions the other two ways to emphasize his point. He only supports the third way.

For instance when Dr. king talks about acquiescence. He uses the example of Moses and the Israelite's he freed from Egypt. In paragraph one Dr.king states, “He soon discovered that slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves.” He elaborates further in paragraph two he states, “There is such a thing as freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so

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He also explains immoral in the same paragraph he refutes “Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible.” when resorting to physical violence it does not solve any problems, but rather creates more in the end. In paragraph four he confirms, “...violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones.” This is why Dr. King does not support the second way. There is nothing good that comes from it.

So far Dr. King has basically damned and condemned the first two ways of meeting oppression. However, he does support the third, Dr. king believes nonviolent resistance is the best and the only way to meet oppression. He talks about Hegelian philosophy. Which uses acquiescence, and physical violence and corroding hatred but takes out something from both. In paragraph seven he states, “...while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.” This is exactly what Dr. King believes will work. In paragraph eight he confirms by stating,