So far King is the closest thing the Negro struggle has to an ambassador and he is the key to peace being kept between both sides of this conflict by clearly explaining why their actions are justified. Another point brought up by the religious leaders to King is that although justified, the actions were untimely and could have waited longer. “One of the basic points in your statement is that our acts are untimely. Some have asked, why didn’t you give the new administration time to act? The only answer that I can give to this inquiry is that the new administration must be prodded about as much as the outgoing one before it acts”. (pg 37) The religious leaders believed that the new administration would bring about a change, but King and his followers are not so ignorant. They realize throughout history that privileged groups never give up power voluntarily and more empty promises would be in store for them. It is not so much that all privileged groups do not seek to bring about justice but because they do not see the harm they are causing they are not provoked to bring about any change. This is why it is necessary for someone to provoke them into bringing about change.

Dr King carefully analyzes why they are justified in their decision to use nonviolent resistance to accomplish their short and long term goals. King’s intellect and educational back round helped him to be taken seriously by the people whose opinions he is trying to change. King was a great leader because he was understanding and wanted nothing more but for there to be justice for all people and not just blacks. He was the key in getting the blacks demands to be taken seriously by making those that opposed them understand that they have leaders who know what they were doing in this fight and that there would be consequences for ignoring the pleas of the people.

The second step in a nonviolent campaign; negotiation, came as a result of the intolerable bombings and hate crimes going on in Birmingham. Negotiation was sought immediately by Negro leaders but political leaders continually ignored pleas made for negotiation. King then moves on to say negotiations that supposedly were agreed upon were lies, for example merchants made certain promises to remove racial signs from store windows in exchange for a ha

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