Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 367 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Four Steps
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The idea
King's discipline for confronting unjust law runs four steps: collection of the facts, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action — escalation earned, not chosen first.
In practice
The sequence is the argument's armor: a campaign that skipped to the streets answers "why not negotiate" with a record showing it tried.
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