Do The Right Thing

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an advocate for non-violent protests. He claimed ".....Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers." In the script, Do The Right Thing, everyone has a different opinion regarding violence and "doing the right thing." Da Mayor, a citizen in the Brooklyn neighborhood this script takes place, is an advocate of non-violence just as MLK (Martin Luther King, Jr.) was. The town was getting angry with the way things were ran. Racism was on the move. Violence was on the rise. Da Mayor approached the violent mob and said "Good people, let's all go home. Somebody's gonna get hurt. (...) If we don't stop this now, we'll all regret it. Sal and his two boys had nothing to do with what the police did" (Lee, 81). Da Mayor believed he was "doing the right thing" by protecting his people from violence and destruction to their community. Both MLK and Da Mayor believed violence was not the answer. They believed they were "doing the right thing" by supporting non-violence in their communities.