PHI 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noble Lie
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He says injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere . Mlk says that he can"t be an outsider since it is still in the country. Also you can only negotiate from a position of strength. It was very dif cult to register and even if they did register there was very big intimidation factors. They did have economic power when they banded together like in boycotts. One advantage they had was that they had exposure, other parts of the country were disgusted by injustice as were other parts of the world. By having attention called to it the african americans saw that the larger audience disapproved and gave them strength. People had to be willing to give themselves up for the cause. Plato"s myth of the metals aka the noble lie . Myth is that the gods mixed in metals into people.
