Useful examples of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. :His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor.

This example states clearly that an ability can be largely influenced by childhood background: King has his father a co-pastor and his grandfather a pastor too, so King would earn the early ability to give speech and would be likely to succeed in pursuing a career of a preacher fighting against racism. We can also defend the point that children’s passions and abilities can also be created with their parents’. We can, therefore, make an assumption that talent and ability can be inherently passed down to younger generations.

Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration 

We can use the two first lines to support the idea that a person who can do great things has to have a strong background and base in order to create his or her confidence in the pursuit of profession and ideas. We can also use the two lines for backing up the point that a person has to build a strong background and develop early leadership in order to succeed in leading a large group to achieve the goals.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience.

 We can use this information to support the idea that a famous person always has strong based concepts taken from another big person in the past in order to have success like the idea that King took some of the non-violent techniques from Mahatma Gandhi, a great “soul” famous for non-violent and democratically unarmed protests. We can use the middle information of the paragraph to support the point that King had to work hard with passion to gather people to follow him to uproot the deep discrimination in race. We can also deduce from the text that King is a knowledgeable person who possesses unlimited love for his race and the unremitting hope for the disparity between races in order for people of his race to live in freedom and prosper. A person with a longing dream of freedom will probably act like King with protests because that person has a good background and a good mind for being a true leader, being ready to fight off any cruel oppressors. Therefore, the true protests kindle new era of freedom and social development.

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