Power Does Not Come From A Gun

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was a
great one, but the road to achievement was long and full of
sacrifices. It was a time when Blacks had no rights and most of
them accepted this as the way it was and no one could do anything
about it. Most of them, but not King. When the police arrested a black
woman for sitting in the front of the bus and refusing to give up her
seat to a white woman, King led a committee that organized a boycott
of buses. The results were that on April 23, 1956, the Supreme Court
ruled that "segregation in public transportation is unconstitutional"
and that South Carolina as well as 12 other states must remove the
"whites only" signs that hung in the front of the buses. This was just
the beginning, he vowed to continue his fight using "passive
resistance and the weapon of love". He helped establish the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, and became its first president. ...

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murderers had. "I am indeed, a practical dreamer. My dreams are not
airy nothings. I want to convert my dreams into realities, as far as
possible."


Mahatma is the name the people of India gave to Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi. The meaning is Great Soul, and they considered him
as the father of their nation. He named his autobiography, "The story
of My Experiments With Truth." That was, after all, what his life was
about: the truth and his search to find it. He was against violence in
any form, he felt there existed better methods of accomplishing
things, and ...

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