Luther King Institute 'pleased' with movements using 'nonviolent resistance'

The director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Clayborne Carson, has said he is "pleased when any movement chooses to use the kind of nonviolent tactics and strategies that King advocated."

In comments to the Catalan News Agency (ACN) and shared in the social media and talking about the Catalan movement, he said it is "admirable" that a cause uses the idea of "nonviolent resistance to injustice."

He also denied some Spanish media reports recently stating that he believes the black American activist would have opposed the independence of Catalonia.

"This distorts what I actually said in response to a Spanish reporter’s questions about whether proponents of Catalan independence were justified in using King's name to support their struggle," he said.