True Healing - Rev. Dr. Charles Halton

 And pictures of that burning monk  were on the front page of almost every newspaper in the world.  It, the photograph documented this radical and horrific event  that many people in the United States did not understand.  And one of those people who did not understand this  was Martin Luther King, Jr.  Dr. King had struck up a friendship with another Vietnamese monk  named Thich Nhat Hanh.

And  both King and Hanh were working for peace within their different contexts in that common goal of striving for peace. gave them a bond of friendship,  and even though they only met once in person, they exchanged letters with one another, encouraging each other to keep up their holy work.  In one of those letters, Han explained to Martin Luther King what was going on behind these monks setting themselves on fire. 

Han told King that these monks wanted their oppressors to stop hurting innocent people,  but they did not want to commit violence  against their oppressors in order to do that.