Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Morehouse College)| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
February 3, 1959 to March 18, 1959| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
October 2, 1869 to January 30, 1948| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
January 2, 1863 to March 21, 1931| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Crozer Theological Seminary)| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
December 19, 1897 to November 11, 1984| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
February 12, 1909| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
As a theologian, Martin Luther King reflected often on his understanding of nonviolence. He described his own “pilgrimage to nonviolence” in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, and in subsequent books and articles. “True pacifism,” or “nonviolent resistance,” King wrote, is “a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love” (King, Stride, 80). Both “morally and practically” committed to nonviolence, King believed that “the Christian doctrine of love operating...| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
August 1, 1894 to March 28, 1984| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute