This excerpt shows that martin luther king jr. believed which of the following? a. it is every american's responsibility to support the goals of the civil rights movement. b. the government must pass stronger laws to protect civil rights activist from violence. c. activist should work to change their own communities before joining the national civil rights movement. d. progress on race relations can only occur if people use the democratic process to being about change.

Among the options given on the question the correct answer is option D.

Progress on race relations can only occur if people use the democratic process to being about change.

Explanation: The excerpt is from the speech of Martin Luther King Jr. He was the legendary activist for African American to fight for their equality. However on the given lines on the excerpt Martin Luther expressed his belief that progress on racial relation can only occur if people use the democratic process to being about change.

Because, he mentioned on the speech that injustice in anywhere is a threat justice. If people think they are not the part of the incident and remain silent the injustice an indirect threat to them. Therefore, like in a democratic process the people should react to the injustice to prevent it wherever it happens.

Moreover, he cited that people who live in the United states they are not the outsider, no matter wherever from they are. So he asked people to leave up the narrow mind setting like an very conservative and to be democratic to accept all other races who lives in the United States.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

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