How Does Martin Luther King Jr Use Peaceful Resistance To Change

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Peaceful Resistance Leads to Change Martin Luther King Jr., a peaceful protester that used words to lead to a positive impact on a free society, which guided the United States government to change. He stated, “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” Mr. King is known for peaceful protests in the 1950s and 1960s. He unlike Malcolm X and others who used violence to try and get change; that lead the society to be angry at these type of protesters. Martin Luther King Jr. used words to persuade the federal government that there needed to be changes. If peaceful resistance to laws negatively impacted a free society, nothing would get accomplished; whereas peaceful resistance to the

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