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Martin Luther King, Jr. believed people could create change with non-violent passive resistance. Why is today’s world and its problems with violence on the streets and in schools different?

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In contrast, the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement chose the tactic of nonviolence as a tool to dismantle institutionalized racial segregation, discrimination, and inequality. ... Civil rights leaders had long understood that segregationists would go to any length to maintain their power and control over blacks

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