... . His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence."" (Martin Luther King Jr., www.stanford.edu) Gandhi addressed a letter to the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, informing him that unless Indian demands were met, he would be compelled to break the "salt laws". Predictably, his ... letter was received with bewildered amusement, and accordingly Gandhi set off with a small group of followers towards Dandi. Gandhi, 61 years old, reached Dandi after walking 241 kilometers in 24 days. ... ...

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... protests for civil rights. On October 1960 King joined the students at a downtown lunch counter and, as expected, their protest landed them in jail. As he wrote in his first letter to his wife Coretta from jail, "This is the cross that we must bear for the freedom of our people-. King was eager to work on civil-rights issues with ... persevered. There were times when violence erupted despite his efforts to maintain peace. But King never wavered from his course of nonviolent protest. His three books and the famous treatise, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, are still widely read. During the...

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... court order and were arrested and placed in solitary confinement. During his incarceration, criticism by local white clergymen of the movement and King's actions prompted him to write his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." From all of the brutality this brought upon, the tide of negative publicity soon convinced Birmingham's white businessmen to seek an agreement with the protesters. In the ... ...

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