9) The pub-quiz preparation - Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

The Ways of Meeting Oppression

You can watch one part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in the biggest demonstration of USA nation until 1963 at the bottom. They got together in order to gain citizenship rights to Negros. However, I realize that there are not only black people in demonstration area, but also white people in there! It shows us that the white citizenship in USA are also disturbed from segregation. They don't protest white society they, protest governments.
And Martin Luther King said that " We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt!"

Martin Luther King examined Three Ways of Meeting Oppression

Oppressed People cope with their oppression by three ways.

1) Acquiescence: Some oppressed people accept oppression because they don't want struggle and they see the acquiescence as freedom!! This is a kind of negative freedom.

But this is not a way for a real freedom. " To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor." (M.L.K.)
And a Negro never win his freedom by acquiescence!

2)Physical violence and corroding hatred: Some of the oppressed people resort to violence to gain freedom.But also Martin L. King support that the way of violence never gives the freedom and peace! Besides, violence and hatred create more insolvable issues for both oppressed and oppresser.
Blacks' next generations will struggle with a huge aloneness in society also it caused destruction on both oppressed and opressor people's psychological and physical entities.

( I saw the similarities between the way of violence and the condition of Turkey. Kurds established PKK to gain their rights in Turkey as oppressed society but PKK is called as " Terror Organization". Killing and being killed gave nothing to Kurdish society. in contrast,as well as Turkey's policy, they caused underdevelopment of East of Turkey.)

3) Nonviolent resistance: According to Martin Luther King Jr. the best way to achieve freedom and rights is nonviolent resistance.
" The nonviolent resister agrees with the person who acquiesces that one should not be physically aggressive toward his opponent but he balances the equation by agreeing with the person of violence that evil must be resisted." (M.L.K.)

The violence and acquiescence never solve problems but resisting to injustice nonviolently and being patience in the way of having citizenship rights and fighting with racism pass people from segregation to equality.