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             Martin Luther King, Jr. is arguably one of the greatest visionaries to ever live. Throughout his copious speeches and letters, his Letter from Birmingham Jail and the "I Have a Dream"" speech are utter standouts. MLK had a distinct vision, yet what differentiated him from other African American leaders at the time was his ability to access situations with a peaceful ideology. In the Birmingham Jail letter, MLK acknowledges social injustices throughout the United States. However, MLK thought battling racial segregation should be fought more within the court room, rather than out on the streets. One of the most powerful lines from the Birmingham Letter is, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider." ".

             The Students for a Democratic Society were one of the more radical groups to emerge from the civil rights movement. To put it best, Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio stated, "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, that you can't take part.and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears.and you've got to make it stop." The SDS could have been President Kennedy's worst nightmare. Tired of the acceptance and complacency of the acceptance poverty, racism, and militarism, the SDS held a massive protest in 1964 at the University of Cal Berkley. With the banning of political recruitment on campus by administrators, a mere 800 students held a sit in, many of them giving themselves up for arrest. Civil rights was certainly not the only problem at hand for President Kennedy. With the predicament of foreign policy regarding Europe, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Africa, and Latin America, such groups such as the SDS would have much more to oppose.