Dr. Martin Luther King's Path to Peace

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Violence from global conflict is on a steady rise. War, oppression and other miseries have uprooted 60 million people, the greatest human displacement ever recorded. Foreign policy debates include calls for solving these problems with military action or other force. Dr. Martin Luther King believed that only nonviolent action can ultimately build peace and justice. But how? On April 4, the somber anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination, join a United States Institute of Peace forum on ways to reclaim and re-frame nonviolent action against 21st-century global conflicts, extremisms, and injustices that fuel them. Researchers and activists will discuss their recent or forthcoming books on nonviolent action and join an audience-wide conversation and poll.

The event is open to the public and will be streaming online. You are encouraged to attend and participate onsite or online. Click the link below to RSVP.

http://www.usip.org/events/dr-martin-luther-king-s-path-peace?utm_source=Homepage&utm_medium=Slideshow&utm_campaign=SlideshowClicks

Which of the following quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. do you think is most relevant to the kinds of conflicts we are witnessing today around the world? *

“It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.” (I’ve Been the Mountaintop, 1968)

“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” (Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community, 1967)

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered." (Why I Am Opposed to the Vietnam War, 1967)

“Through our scientific genius we made of the world a neighborhood, but we failed through moral commitment to make of it a brotherhood, and so we’ve ended up with guided missiles and misguided men.” (Keep Moving from the Mountain, 1965)

“We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say ‘We must not wage war.’ It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace.” (The Quest for Peace and Justice, 1964)

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” (Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963)

“Nonviolent resistance is not aimed against oppressors, but against oppression.” (Three Ways of Meeting Oppression, 1958)

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