1 secret of Martin Luther King's success

Blood would have rushed to my head.

The next moment you would have seen a wild look in my eyes, swearing at the critics, dragging them by their hair, beating them violently. And it likely had doused down the fire of the struggle there and then.

Any short-sighted, quick-tempered guy would have presumed it bravery to knocking the bloody shit of those stupid folks and had went on record to admit it.

But King was King for a reason.

Though Dr Martin Luther King was falsely slapped with a series of excoriating accusations as evident in this interview, I was deeply moved by him because he didn’t get enraged, and continued to record his objections and rights in a logical and firm way.

He was reproached for provoking violence and fanning the fire of unrest which had 2 people killed and worth $300,000 property destroyed, but never did it appear that he was losing his cool and logic.

We know that Dr King was fighting for the rights of negros in the United States because since ages this class of human beings was subjected to discrimination and crimes. His heart was already roasted and wounded due to cruelty and brutality inflicted on people like him, and therefore such accusations were like pouring acid to cut the injuries deep.

He dispelled this accusation, saying that if a physician diagnoses cancer, he doesn’t deserve to be blamed for the trouble. It’s because of him that the patient gets aware of the disease, and his treatments kicks into gear.

If diagnosed early, there’s a probability for it to get cured. The worries and expenses triggering by the diagnosis have to do nothing with the doctor.

Applying this doctor-and-patient analogy to the discrimination he was protesting against, he said that he with other protesters only brought to surface the syndrome of deprivation seething beneath the society, and what followed had to do nothing with him.

Drawing another analogy, he said that accusing him and his community is like accusing the robbed and absolving the robber, supplying the reason that the possessions of the robbed precipitated the robbery.

According to him, the protesters acted only as catalytic agents, and in reality the root of the problem lay elsewhere.

Without getting enraged, he argued his case firmly, and resultantly the piercing truth cut across the surface of falsehood.

I learnt that if I’m levelled with lie, baseless accusations or guile, I have to keep it in my mind that the approach of the intellectual is to dispel them logically, without getting enraged and without losing the path of good behaviour.

If we’re rouse to anger when someone levels false accusations on us, we might end up giving an improper reaction. Frequently repetition of this might soon label us impudent and impatient.

More dangerously, the cause we’re standing up for also gets shrouded due to this unwarranted spat.

Secondly, we need taking care that when our failings and foibles are pointed out to us, we don’t get excited. we have to weigh our case dispassionately, with a logical mind, before arriving at a conclusion.

I’ll take care not to get enraged when groundless allegations are levelled on me because oftentimes they’re a tool to distract people from the right course by miring them in controversies.