Inspired
(得到灵感)
by the belief that love and peaceful protest could eliminate
(消除)
social injustice
(不公平), Martin Luther King, Jr., became one of the outstanding
black leaders in the United States. He aroused
(唤起)
whites and blacks alike to
protest racial
(种族的)discrimination
(歧视),
poverty
(贫困), and war. A champion
(拥护者)
of nonviolent
resistance
(反抗)
to oppression
(压迫), he was awarded
(授予)
the Nobel peace prize in 1964.
Dr Martin Luther King served as leader during the march of the civil rights movement. He believed in the nonviolent protest
(抗议)
as a means to achieve recognition (承认)
and rights for all black Americans. Despite (尽管)
the peaceful tactics (战术, 策略),
demonstrators (示威者)
often bore the brunt (冲击)
and brutal(残忍的)
confrontation (对抗).
American civil rights
campaigner Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black
voting (选举的)
rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in
Montgomery.
Strong Belief
His
energetic (精力充沛的)
personality and persuasive oratory (讲演术)
helped unite many blacks in a search for peaceful solutions (解决办法)
to racial (种族的)
oppression (压迫). Although King's views
were challenged (挑战)
by blacks who had lost faith (信念)
in nonviolence, his belief in
the power of nonviolent protest remained strong.
Militant (好战的)
black leaders began to attack his appeals (
要求)
for
nonviolence. They accused (谴责)
him of being influenced (影响)
too much by whites.
Gandhi (甘地)
and King
A visit
to India in 1959 gave King a long-awaited opportunity (机会)
to study Gandhi's
techniques (方法)
of nonviolent protest.
"We
must learn to meet hate with love"
On January 30, 1956 Dr. King's home was
bombed. His wife and their baby daughter escaped without injury. When Dr.
King arrived home he found an angry mob (人群)
waiting. Dr. King told the crowd to go home. "We
must learn to meet hate with love" he said.
Civil
rights campaigner and clergyman(牧师)
Martin Luther King leading a civil rights march in Alabama. His
colleague (同事)
and fellow clergyman Ralph Abernathy is on the left.
Not only for
Civil-Rights,
but also against Vietnam War
The Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr., winner of the Nobel peace prize in 1964, was a
significant (重要的)
figure (人物)
not only in the struggle for racial desegregation (废止种族歧视)
in
the United States but also in his emphasis (强调)
on nonviolence in dealing with
both racism and war.
King
combined (结合)
his civil-rights campaigns (运动)
with a strong stand against the
Vietnam (越南)
War. He believed that the money and effort spent on war could be
used to combat (抗击)
poverty (贫穷)
and discrimination (歧视). He felt that he would be a
hypocrite (伪善者)
if he protested racial violence without also condemning (谴责)
the
violence of war. Militant black leaders began to attack his appeals for
nonviolence. They accused him of being influenced too much by whites.
Government officials criticized his stand on Vietnam. Some black leaders
felt that King's statements against war diverted public attention from
civil rights.
American
civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize
in Oslo, Norway.
Why
and what we can learn from Dr King's legacy (遗产)
A
meaningful way that we and our children can celebrate the birthday of the
great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is to incorporate (合并, 混合)
his legacy of nonviolence into our daily lives. Each time we renew our
commitment (许诺,
承担义务)
to resolving conflicts (斗争, 冲突)
nonviolently, we honor Dr. King's
legacy.
Crown
Prince Herald and King Olav of Norway congratulate American civil rights
activist Martin Luther King Jr. after he receives the Nobel Peace Prize in
Oslo.
