... order forbidding further demonstrations against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested. The act of civil disobedience immediately evoked a reaction from eight white clergymen, who, in a statement printed in the local newspaper, called King ... that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal" to illustrate why he must expose this tension so that we will leave behind racism and ... prejudice, move tow...

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... upon as he challenged the British Empire, and eventually freed his people. The only weapons Gandhi was guilty of using were "weapons of truth, non-injury, courage and soul force" (King 103). In his letter, King also compared his civil disobedience and those of the Negros to the some Biblical characters. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego nonviolently refused to obey King Nebuchadnezzar, since ... higher laws. King also told of Daniel who refused to submit to the laws of the Roman Empire and ended up being thrown in a lion's den. Wise Greek philosopher Socrates himself practiced civil disobed...

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