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Martin Luther King's aim was to get black people the same rights as white people and to show they where all equal.

Martin Luther King had a goal which was for equality and peace between races in the United States. While studying at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, King heard a lecture on Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that he used successfully against British rule in India. King read several books on the ideas of Gandhi, and eventually became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. He was particularly struck by Gandhi's words: "Through our pain we will make them see their injustice". King was also influenced by Henry David Thoreau and his theories on how to use nonviolent resistance to achieve social change. After he heard this lecture it made him realise that action needed taking on racial and segregation discrimination

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