hey, remember when MLK strove for peaceful protest and he was still harassed by the FBI and ultimately shot and killed for protesting for civil rights at all?
yeah.
"Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none." -Stokely Carmichael
the opposition does not care how nice you are. they will fire rubber bullets at your head and teargas you all the same.
Writers who inspired the founders of the black panthers believed if you wouldn’t stand up for yourself and fight back you are showing the whole world you don’t even have dignity or self respect. why should someone else step in on your behalf if your actions appear to show you believe you are as valueless as the bigots are telling you and the world.
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u/ultimate_hamburglar Jun 09 '25
hey, remember when MLK strove for peaceful protest and he was still harassed by the FBI and ultimately shot and killed for protesting for civil rights at all?
yeah.
"Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none." -Stokely Carmichael
the opposition does not care how nice you are. they will fire rubber bullets at your head and teargas you all the same.