MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Location: file:///C:/24F444C5/MLKonNonviolence.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Martin Luther King’s Principles of Nonviolence

Martin Luther King’s Principles of Nonviolence=

 

 

= 1.      =             Nonviolent resistance results from courage and strength, not cowardice and weakness.

= 2.      =             The goal of nonviolent resistance is redemption and reconciliation, not bitterness and humiliation.

= 3.      =             Nonviolent resistance is “directed against the forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing evil.R= 21;

= 4.      =             Nonviolent protesters must be willing to accept suffering without retaliating.

= 5.      =             “At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love.”

= 6.      =             Nonviolent resistance is built upon the “conviction that the universe is on the side of justice.”