Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "When the opportunity presents itself to defeat your enemy, that is the time you must not do it," embodying his philosophy of mutual "Christian Love". Until the civil rights movement, discrimination and racism had been a serious problem in the United States. King's An Experiment in Love was a statement of principles, introducing his idea of agape, love good neighborly, "Christian," which he also described as "God's love toward his creations." Later, Jane Elliot, whose experiments were documented in A Class Divided, studied discrimination among young children, and Abbey Crain and Matt Ford described an incident of discrimination that occurred at their school, the University of Alabama, in the article The Final Barrier: 50 Years Subsequently, discrimination still exists Harper Lee's book To Kill a Mockingbird is a love story starring An Experiment in Love because agape is represented in many forms throughout its events. This is supported in many places in the text. The main source of agape is Scout's father, Atticus. Unlike...
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