LUPTA LUI MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PENTRU DEMNITATEA UMANĂ ȘI LIBERTATE RELIGIOASĂ

Abstract

Martin Luther King Junior’s Fight for Human Dignity and Religious Freedom

Martin Luther King Junior is the leader of the first Afro American nonviolent demonstration started United States of America in 1955. A Baptist Minister with great oratorical skills and determined to fight against discrimination and the segregation  of the Afro-Americans, King became soon the leader of the civil rights movement. Starting with the boycott to protest against the segregation in the busses, the civil rights movement expanded and inflamed a whole nation and changed the  situation of the Afro-Americans as few would have ever imagined at the beginning of the movement. Luther King promoted a nonviolent form of protestation that was more powerful than the guns, or the violence of the police who tried to stop  several times the peaceful marches. From his own writings, and from the authors of his biographies, there are clear arguments that Luther King was motivated by his theology and his understanding of the Christian beliefs in his attempt for the  social reforms and for religious freedom he dedicated all his life for. He promoted the human dignity that is rooted in the doctrine of Creation of men, who was created on God’s own image and identified the source of this nonviolent approach in  the Sermon on the Mountain and in the love preached by Jesus Christ.