What was the impact of the I Have A Dream speech? Rev King had called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.' 'Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action.
Credit: APįrom the Birmingham jail, King wrote a letter of great eloquence in which he spelled out his philosophy of nonviolence, saying 'You may well ask: 'Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?' You are quite right in calling for negotiation.'
A boy walks past a painting of Martin Luther King.
