Question

PART A: What is the effect of King describing passivity as “sterile” in paragraph 4? A. It contrasts passivity with nonviolence, which is a more effective path to social change. B. It stresses the idea that neither passivity nor nonviolence lead to peace. C. It reinforces the idea that passivity is a safer way to create change than nonviolence. D. It portrays passivity as more important than nonviolence in fighting injustice.

Answer 1

In his Nobel Acceptance Speech in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described passivity as sterile, effectively contrasting passivity with his preferred path of change- nonviolence. This made passivity seem like a failure, not bridging the gap between peoples but failing to engage anyone at all.

Answer 2

The answers is A. it contrasts passivity with nonviolence, which is a more effective path to social change