Peace and Global Citizenship

1. Peace and Global Citizenship
Peace
Movements
June 3, 2019
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P E A C E M O V E M E N T
Peace
Movements
Is a social movement that seeks to
achieve ideals such as the ending of a
particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-
human violence in a particular place or
type of situation, and is often linked to the
goal of achieving world peace.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
- "Letter from a Birmingham Jail,”
Martin Luther King Jr., pp. 201-205.
- "Civil Disobedience,"
Henry David Thoreau, pp. 214-219.
Approaches to Peace:Areader in
Peace Studies - David Barash
Fourth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018

4. Martin Luther
King Jr.
- Civil rights leader in the US concerning
racial equality.
- Marches and boycotts during the civil
rights movement;
- Nonviolence approach;
- Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
1929 1968

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What do you know about the
US Civil Rights Movement?
P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
2 minutes

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
The timeline
of the US
Civil Rights
Movement
Font: http://mlkclub.com/civilrightstimeline.html

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
The timeline
of the US
Civil Rights
Movement
Font: http://mlkclub.com/civilrightstimeline.html
April 16, 1963
August 28, 1963

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
The timeline
of the US
Civil Rights
Movement
Font: http://mlkclub.com/civilrightstimeline.html

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
The timeline
of the US
Civil Rights
Movement
Font: http://mlkclub.com/civilrightstimeline.html

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
The timeline
of the US
Civil Rights
Movement
Font: http://mlkclub.com/civilrightstimeline.html
April 16, 1963

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
The timeline
of the US
Civil Rights
Movement
Font: http://mlkclub.com/civilrightstimeline.html
August 28, 1963

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
The timeline
of the US
Civil Rights
Movement
Font: http://mlkclub.com/civilrightstimeline.html

13. What inspired
Martin Luther
King Jr. to write
the Letter from
Birmingham Jail?
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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S

14. What inspired
Martin Luther
King Jr. to write
the Letter from
Birmingham Jail?
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Essentially, they accused Kingof being a rabble-rouser fromout of town who was trying tostir up trouble and createanarchy. They acknowledgedthat segregation was aproblem, but claimed that civildisobedience was “unwiseand untimely.” They accusedDr. King of “incit[ing] tohatred and violence” anddeclared that “hatred andviolence have no sanctionin our religious and politicaltraditions.”

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
Font: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr
“During my student days, I read Henry
David Thoreau's essay On Civil
Disobedience for the first time. (…)
Fascinated by the idea of refusing to
cooperate with an evil system, I was so
deeply moved that I reread the work
several times. I became convinced that
noncooperation with evil is as much a
moral obligation as is cooperation with
good. No other person has been more
eloquent and passionate in getting this
idea across than Henry David Thoreau.
As a result of his writings and personal
witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of
creative protest.”

17. Henry David Thoreau
- American writer, philosopher, abolitionist and tax resister.
- Thoreau is best known for his book Walden and his essay
"Civil Disobedience".
- Against slavery and the Mexican–American War
- Thoreau's Civil Disobedience espouses the need to
prioritize one's conscience over the dictates of laws.
- The government, according to Thoreau, is primarily an agent
of corruption and injustice. Because of this, it is "not too
soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionizes”.
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1817 1862

19. NOT PAYING TAX
as a protest
His decision to avoid tax was not because
he missed the deadline or couldn’t afford it,
but rather because he held a moral
objection to the actions of the government,
and considered it his civil responsibility to
refuse his support.
Since taxes are the main avenue through
which citizens support their government,
he refused to pay.
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20. Rethinking democracy
and the government role
Thoreau believes that the government that
doesn’t govern is the best kind.
He considers the government to be a hurdle
for society as well as the individual because its
main concerns—trade and commerce, and
politics—don’t help anyone, but instead get in
the way of societal function and progress.
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“I was not born to be
forced. I will breathe after
my own fashion. Let us
see who is the strongest.”
P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax
bills this year, that would not be a violent and
bloody measure, as it would be to pay them,
and enable the State to commit violence and
shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the
definition of a peaceable revolution, if any
such is possible.”
― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

23. Thank you :)

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P E A C E M O V E M E N T S
References:
• Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," in David Barash,Approaches to Peace:
Areader in Peace Studies, Fourth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 201-205.
• Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience," in David Barash,Approaches to Peace:Areader in
Peace Studies, Fourth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 214-219.
• TheAutobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr