1 Martin Luther King was an angry young man who hated the segregated world of the American South he saw inflicted on African Americans all over the nation. In adulthood, he came to feel that anger offered no solution to the problems that he and other African Americans faced. He changed his mind to the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi who led a resistance against India through nonviolence. Martin Luther King was inspired to love his enemy as he would his neighbor. Gandhi in turn derived his thoughts from Thoreau's essay "On civil disobedience." Gandhi's beliefs helped king to harness his anger and channel it into a positive and creative force for social change. He helped the black ppl learn from the Gandhi tenets and applied it to his own faith. …
