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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (3921)	2/8/2001 7:24:06 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6089

Dr. King was a deeply religious man and the black movement for civil rights came from within the black churches. This does not mean that he thought that those who did not believe in God were bad people. He says, "I am quite aware of the fact that there are persons who believe firmly in nonviolence who do not believe in a personal God, but I think every person who believes in nonviolent resistance believes somehow that the universe in some form is on the side of justice. That there is something unfolding in the universe whether one speaks of it as an unconscious process, or whether one speaks of it as some unmoved mover, or whether someone speaks of it as a personal God. There is something in the universe that unfolds for justice and so in Montgomery we felt somehow that as we struggled we had cosmic companionship. And this was one of the things that kept the people together, the belief that the universe is on the side of justice." Excerpt from THE POWER OF NONVIOLENCE Dr. King doesn't ignore the dark side of man's nature. It's just that he's optimistic that in time racism can be overcome and that he wants white Americans to understand that people of color are not a threat to the white community. You must remember that I haven't read that much of his work!