Martin Luther King Jr. was a believer of peaceful protest. Every single one of his protestant gatherings were meant to be peaceful. a quote from from one of his speeches shows this:
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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This excerpt proves that he was a peaceful protestor.
Answer:
It was not about taxes, it was about the government who pass it.
Explanation:
This was not about taxes, it was about the government who passed this order. New taxes were imposed by the parliament of England not by their own local government of colonists which make them angrier and they decided not to pay taxes to the British empire because they violate their rights as British citizens. Our current system collect taxes from us and spend on ourselves while the British collect taxes from colonist and spend it on its own country not on the colonist.
