in the
             front of the buses. This was just the beginning, he vowed to continue
             his fight using "passive resistance and the weapon of love". He helped
             establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and became its
             first president. Then in 1957, King met with Vice-president Nixon in
             Washington to "discuss racial problems
             . He went on to lead protests, demonstrations and marches, making the
             non-violent resistance stronger than it had ever been before. He
             succeeded in making people aware that every human being is born equal
             and that no one should be denied his civil rights.
             Martin Luther King had a dream and he knew that there was only
             one way to make it come true, to wake up and to take action. He was a
             true example of someone putting their power to good use. He started his
             life with a disadvantage, he was hated because of the color of his skin,
             but he did not let that stop him. He was arrested, thrown in jail,
             stabbed, stoned, he even had his home bombed. Through it all, he refused
             to give up, he had found a cause worth dying for and he did. He was
             murdered on the night of April 4, 1968. People tried to use their power
             to stop him and his fight. In the end, they may have succeeded in
             killing its leader, but the battle against racism lived on. Looking
             back, people say that Martin Luther King Jr. was a very powerful man. I
             have never heard anyone say his attackers or his murderers had.
             "I am indeed, a practical dreamer. My dreams are not airy nothings. I
             want to convert my dreams into realities, as far as possible."
             Mahatma is the name the people of India gave to Mohandas
             Karamchand Gandhi. The meaning is Great Soul, and they considered him as
             the father of their nation. He named his autobiography, "The story of My
             Experiments With Truth." That was, after all, what his life was about:
             the truth and his search to find it. He was against ...