Click to read the passage from "Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance" by Martin Luther King Jr. Then answer the question,
Which of the following best states the central idea of this passage?
A. Nonviolence is the best way to deal with oppression,
B. Contemplation is when you sit and think about something.
C. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader during the 20th
century
O D. Many Americans exercise their right to vote.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive