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The Four Steps

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State

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.

Show

The sequence is the argument's armor: a campaign that skipped to the streets answers "why not negotiate" with a record showing it tried.