Question

What skills led to Martin Luther King becoming a leader in the struggle for equality?

Answer 1

His strong work ethic 

Answer 2

The correct answer is C, as his hard work ethics were the skills that led Martin Luther King to become a leader in the struggle for equality in the United States.

Martin Luther King, a civil rights activist from a young age, organized and carried out various peaceful activities claiming the right to vote, non-discrimination and other basic civil rights for black people in the United States. Among his most remembered actions are the bus boycott in Montgomery, in 1955; his support for the foundation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), in 1957 (of which he would be its first president); and the leadership of the March on Washington for Work and Freedom, in August 1963, at the end of which he would deliver his famous speech "I have a dream", thanks to which public awareness of the issue would spread throughout the country and would consolidate itself as one of the greatest orators in American history. Most of the rights claimed by the movement would be legally approved with the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Martin Luther King had a pacifist stance. For King, nonviolence was not only fair but indispensable, because no matter how just the cause of origin, violence means the error and the revenge cycle of the Talion law, and he defended the ethic of reciprocity. If violence and war had become so destructive it was because the speed of scientific progress had surpassed that of the development of ethics and morals, which were not capable of restricting their negative applications.