Martin Luther King Jr has helped impact all nations though leading the boycotts though the South and help leading the whites and black to work and address things together avoiding segregation with the idea that "we are all one nation under God with liberty and Justice for all"
Religion influences:
Howard Thurman was a civil rights leader, theologian and educator that had an early influence on King Jr. He was a classmate of King Jrs father at the More House College.
Walter Fluker, who has studied Thurman's writings, has stated, "I don't believe you'd get a Martin Luther King, Jr. without a Howard Thurman".
Non-Violent influences:
King, Jr was also influenced by Gahndi in the sense of anti violence approaches to situation and arguments. He even visited his Birth place in India 1959, this trip further affected King, Jr and made his notion against violence stronger.
"Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation."
Political Influences
As the leader of the SCLC, King maintained a policy of not publicly endorsing a U.S. political party or candidate: "I feel someone must remain in the position of non-alignment, so that he can look objectively at both parties and be the conscience of both—not the servant or master of either."
Compensation:
Martin Luther King, Jr. expressed a view that black Americans, as well as other disadvantaged Americans, should be compensated for historical wrongs.
"In an interview conducted for Playboy in 1965, he said that granting black Americans only equality could not realistically close the economic gap between them and whites. King said that he did not seek a full restitution of wages lost to slavery, which he believed impossible, but proposed a government compensatory program of $50 billion over ten years to all disadvantaged groups"
King, Jr main legacy was to guarantee the progress of civil rights in the United States. A few days after his assassination, the U.S. Congresses passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The Fair Housing Act prohibited discrimination in housing and housing related transactions on the basis of religion, national origin and race.
Religion influences:
Howard Thurman was a civil rights leader, theologian and educator that had an early influence on King Jr. He was a classmate of King Jrs father at the More House College.
Walter Fluker, who has studied Thurman's writings, has stated, "I don't believe you'd get a Martin Luther King, Jr. without a Howard Thurman".
Non-Violent influences:
King, Jr was also influenced by Gahndi in the sense of anti violence approaches to situation and arguments. He even visited his Birth place in India 1959, this trip further affected King, Jr and made his notion against violence stronger.
"Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation."
Political Influences
As the leader of the SCLC, King maintained a policy of not publicly endorsing a U.S. political party or candidate: "I feel someone must remain in the position of non-alignment, so that he can look objectively at both parties and be the conscience of both—not the servant or master of either."
Compensation:
Martin Luther King, Jr. expressed a view that black Americans, as well as other disadvantaged Americans, should be compensated for historical wrongs.
"In an interview conducted for Playboy in 1965, he said that granting black Americans only equality could not realistically close the economic gap between them and whites. King said that he did not seek a full restitution of wages lost to slavery, which he believed impossible, but proposed a government compensatory program of $50 billion over ten years to all disadvantaged groups"
King, Jr main legacy was to guarantee the progress of civil rights in the United States. A few days after his assassination, the U.S. Congresses passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The Fair Housing Act prohibited discrimination in housing and housing related transactions on the basis of religion, national origin and race.