Comparing Martin Luther King Jr. And Mother Teresa

Martin Luther King Jr: and Mother Teresa

Although Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Teresa lived in countries far apart, they both shared characteristics. Both Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Teresa won Nobel Peace Prizes. The African American minister and Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. He was one of the most important black leaders of his era( page20). He earned A Nobel Prize for his work on October 23, 1964. “He got the prize because he peacefully made changes in America for black civil rights, and for his call for nonviolence” (“Oct. 14, 1964.”). “Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) won the Nobel Prize for Peace on December 11, 1979. Pope Francis canonized her on

Martin Luther King J r he had a high awareness He understood the injustice of the time. He saw how the black people were suffering, and he wanted to do something about it. Martin Luther King J r was one of America’s most influential civil rights activists. He organized marches, and he gave excellent speeches that influenced people. He did this because he was aware of how people needed change. Mother Teresa, on the other hand, did not give speeches or organize marches, but because of her self-awareness, she felt had a calling to help the poor." (Teresa 148). She always helped people who needed her such as visiting patients in hospitals and assisting them financially through charities that work with them. "Mother Teresa had an awareness of reaching poor people understanding their educational and cultural level and how to coexist daily life with them, so when she was in India, she gathered uneducated children from poor places and started teaching them. Also, through its broad awareness of the issues focused on the poorest of the poor and opening a home for orphans and homeless children" ( Teresa 149