The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.insisted that civil disobedience aimed at ending discrimination in the South should be conducted __________.

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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a proponent of nonviolent civil disobedience, as he believed that violence would only undermine the moral and political legitimacy of the movement he was leading. He believed that nonviolent resistance would expose the injustice, provoke moral outrage, and touch the conscience of the nation, thus leading to lasting, positive change.