White Evangelical Protestant Responses to the Civil Rights Movement*
White Evangelical Protestant Responses to the Civil Rights Movement*
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白人福音派新教徒对民权运动的回应*
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10.1017/s0017816009000765
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2009
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0.3
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Curtis J. Evans
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马丁·路德·金在他的第一本书《迈向自由》(1958)中写道。反思非裔美国人在成功抵制蒙哥马利公交车后的未来斗争。在“善良的力量”中，金看到了联邦政府不可或缺的帮助，他告诫批评者和同情者，尽管政府行动“不是全部答案”，但它是“重要的部分答案”。1金是在回答对黑人民权激进主义最常见的批评之一。南方和北方的白人保守派新教徒坚称，种族关系会恶化，因为煽动只会激起白人的恐惧和仇恨，政府代表黑人采取的行动只是一种胁迫形式。金驳斥了这一推论，指出“道德不能立法，但行为可以规范。”他辩称，例如，法律永远不能迫使雇主爱他们的黑人员工，但他们可以阻止他们因为黑人的肤色而拒绝雇用他们，这是事实。金承认，社会最终必须依靠宗教和教育来改变心灵和思想上的错误，但他强调，“强迫一个人接受不公正的行为，直到另一个人的心是正直的，这是一种不道德的行为。”他补充说，法律是一种教育形式，因为它教育公民什么是社会认为正确和适当的。金断言，在任何情况下，“人们的习惯，如果不是已经和正在每天被联邦行动改变的话”，低估法律在改变人类行为和社会模式方面的效力和力量是错误的。
In his first book, Stride Toward Freedom (1958), Martin Luther King, Jr. reflected on the future struggle of African Americans after their successful Montgomery bus boycott. Among the “forces of good,” King saw the indispensable assistance of the federal government, cautioning critics and sympathizers that though government action was “not the whole answer,” it was an “important partial answer.”1 King was addressing one of the most common criticisms of black activism for civil rights. White conservative Protestants, in the South and North, insisted that race relations would worsen because agitation would only stoke the fears and hatreds of whites and that government action on behalf of blacks was only a form of coercion. King rejected this reasoning by noting that “morals cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.” He argued that it was true, for example, that laws could never make employers love their black employees, but they could prevent them from refusing to hire blacks because of their skin color. King conceded that society ultimately must depend on “religion and education to alter the errors of the heart and mind,” but he emphatically argued that “it is an immoral act to compel a man to accept injustice until another man's heart is straight.”2 He added that the law was a form of education in that it instructed citizens about what society regarded as right and appropriate. King asserted that in any case the “habits if not the hearts of people have been and are being altered every day by federal action” and that it would be wrong to undervalue the efficacy and force of law in altering human behavior and social patterns.
Yuji Kuriya：“高速纺丝和纤维结构控制”聚合物加工48（4）（1999）。
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