The Martin Luther King Jr.
Framework
Nonviolent Strategy & Moral Imagination
Martin Luther King Jr. led the most successful nonviolent movement in modern history by refusing the two options the American establishment offered him: submit, or retaliate. His framework instead built a third option — strategic, disciplined, unarmed confrontation with moral clarity so stark it exposed the injustice of the other side. This wasn't passive; it was the hardest thing any movement has ever asked of its participants. This framework captures King's specific patterns: the six steps of nonviolent action, the logic of creative tension, letter-from-a-Birmingham-jail rhetoric, and the discipline of refusing the enemy's frame even when attacked.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Martin Luther King Jr.'s documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like Martin Luther King Jr., not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.