His transition from each level of need can be gleaned from his evolution to a man of magnanimity. He introduced his leadership principles as vision, effective communication, willingness to learn, willingness to lead, and conflict resolution (Brunicardi et al
Marlow's personality theory best fits Martin Luther King, Jr. Hierarchy of Needs Maslow sees a person's basic needs as equivalent to those of animals (Simons et al
It was expected that if a white man or woman entered the bus and there were no seats in the front, then an African-American would get up and give their seat. King organized the boycott following the arrest of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white man (Manheimer 103)
They wanted to voice their displeasure with the efforts towards civil rights that had been made by the government up to that time. Marchers demanded an end to segregation in public schools, civil rights legislation to be passed immediately which would actually enforce their civil rights, and for the minimum wage laws to be $2 an hour for all people regardless of color (Singleton 454)
Instead of waiting for a leader to listen to his voice, he thought of becoming a leader to spread the voice of uncountable members of his race. He joined formal politics under the umbrella of National Association for Advancement of Colored People (Alaxander, 2010)
It was an aggressive movement and Americans fought vigorously against it. During this opposition, Martin was put behind the bars and his house was bombed (Devillier, 2001)
It is important to mention that Martin got this Prize at the age of 35 years and at that time; he was the youngest Nobel Prize Winner. He was the one who gave his race the vision of liberty by his unforgettable speech stating I have a dream (Echols, 2004)
Influences of Heredity and Family The review of early life of Martin highlights that he belonged to a religious family and was brought up on the same lines. His father and grandfather were pastors and he adopted the same line with zeal and zest (Hornsby, 2004)
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro leader of 20th century (Stobaugh, 2012, p
314). He fought for the rights of colored people of America and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (Walker and Armstrong, 2008)
Gandhi advocated that the followers of nonviolence practice personal commitment, self-discipline and personal hygiene before using nonviolence as a means to achieve their goals. King adopted this from the philosophy of Gandhi and inspired his followers to rise to a higher moral level (King, p
Dr. King makes a clear case in the Letter that there is connection between all religious, ethnic and racial groups and that to truly love God, one must also consider the need for human equality and embrace other groups and communities -- and their struggles (Berry 113)
In it, they called upon Dr. King for an end to the protests and what they considered "civil disobedience" taking place in the city (Patton 53)
2). And King understood natural law in the sense that civil disobedience is justified because there are "…two kinds of laws: there are just and unjust laws… [and] an unjust law is no law at all," King wrote (Bass, 2001)
Bennett claims that during King's senior year at Crozer Theological Seminary he read with great interest Reverend Walter Rauschenbusch's book Christianity and the Social Crisis. In that text the minister applied the "social principles of Jesus to the problems of the modern world" (Bennett, 1968, pp
offers a treasure trove of background, direct quotes, and personal letters from King. Senior Editor Clayborne Carson explains that King "undoubtedly" came to initially learn about the Gandhian independence movement while attending Morehouse (Carson, 1997, p
Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr. writes in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy that King found in Gandhi's nonviolent resistance to oppression "…a consistency between the principles of personalism and the inherent respect for the person in the method of nonviolence as a strategy and a way of life" (Carter, 2006, p
Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr. writes in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy that King found in Gandhi's nonviolent resistance to oppression "…a consistency between the principles of personalism and the inherent respect for the person in the method of nonviolence as a strategy and a way of life" (Carter, 2006, p
On page 120 Herman explains that King had passed the entrance exam to get into Atlanta's prestigious Morehouse College "at the age of fifteen without graduating from high school." In order to pay his way through college, King worked on a tobacco farm in Connecticut, where he "expressly enjoyed the personal and social freedom" that a black man could experience in New England (he could sit anywhere in restaurants and movie theaters) (Herman, 120)
It should be emphasized that nonviolence was not always the path that blacks in Mississippi chose; in Michael K. Honey's book (Going Down Jericho Road) the author reports that during civil rights demonstrations in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and elsewhere in the state, "Black Mississippians often were armed and most were not ideologically committed to nonviolence" (Honey, 2007, p