Martin Luther King Jr

Heroes are very important to our society. Without them, much of today’s life would be completely different. These heroes would include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who helped lead the black community out of a racist world and into a more equal and fairer place for everyone. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a hero because he was peaceful, courageous, and dedicated, which led towards ending the racial discrimination against the black community. His peacefulness, courageousness, and dedication to ending social injustice has made life much more equal for everyone and has greatly inspired many people to follow in his footsteps toward ending all the racism and violence in the entire world.

Martin Luther King’s act of being peaceful allowed him to move towards ending racial discrimination in the United States of America. He refused to use violence as a means to achieve what he wanted for his people. During his mid-thirties, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made a short trip to India to learn about Mohandas Gandhi’s technique of using non-violence to solve India’s problems (Kink 74). He applied this approach in his larger plan to end racism and to influence many people to not use violence to solve any of their problems.

As well as helping prevent violence in the world, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. suffered peacefully through his childhood when he experienced unequal treatment toward his race and himself. Since he was a child, he lived in a segregated racial community that strictly limited all African- Americans rights (Kink 19). During one situation when he was young, his parents asked Martin to go down to the local grocery store and buy a quart of milk. He agreed and went to the store which was down the street from his house. When he was there, the store manager tried to charge him an extra $5.00 for the milk he wanted to buy because of his race (Encarta). He couldn’t afford to buy milk with the money he got from his parent’s so he walked home feeling depressed because thought that it wasn’t fair that he had to pay more than any of the other people did that weren’t black (Encarta). Although he was extremely upset during his childhood, he calmly ignored the discrimination and the racial slurs used against him and hardly ever fought back at the people who used them. He learned that violence would never solve anything, and only through extremely hard labor and determination will you ever receive what your heart really desires; whether it is a quart of milk for a fair price, or equal treatment for yourself and for everyone else in the entire world (Encarta).