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Where MLK met Gandhi and Reinhold Niebuhr
This January marks the 95th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One wonders about all the things that Dr. King might have done had he survived that fatal shooting or April 1968, almost sixty years ago. What might King have done with another six decades of life, when most of us are astonished by what he did in under four? This article describes one instance where Dr. King met the monumental figures of Mahatma Gandhi and Reinhold Niebuhr. It is not, of course, a meeting that ever happened in actual reality. It took place in the sanctuary of Dr. King’s mind, and specifically in chapter six of Stride Towards Freedom, where Dr. King makes his argumentative choice for non-violence. It is a brilliant chapter, yet in the critical study of its pages one will still find the enduring relevance of Niebuhr’s thoughts.
Dr. King’s inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi is very clear. In chapter 5 of Stride King declared that “nonviolent resistance had emerged as the technique of the movement while love stood as the regulating ideal. In other words, Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.” Influenced strongly by both the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr,
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Martin Luther - LAST REVIEWED: 10 May well 2010
- LAST MODIFIED: 10 Hawthorn 2010
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0057
- LAST REVIEWED: 10 May well 2010
- LAST MODIFIED: 10 Hawthorn 2010
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0057
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