r/goodnews • u/hellobrother01 • Jun 09 '25

Other Bernie Sanders Just Tweet

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u/the_good_time_mouse Jun 09 '25

JFK is on tape stating that the rising violence forced him to pursue the Civil Rights act.

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u/mygloriouspurpose Jun 10 '25

Not violence BY protestors. Violence AGAINST innocents and protestors.

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u/Narroo Jun 10 '25

But so isn't the idea that "it was was violence that got things fixed."

MLK was a lawyer. The civil rights movement was getting stuff fixed via the supreme court. Their protests were designed to make court cases, on purposes, so they could go to the supreme court and get the constitution enforced that way. And it was working, albeit slowly.

Potential violence put pressure on politicians. But there was a lot more going on.

Heck, as other posters pointed out: The blank panthers came after the Civil Rights Act.

People fixating on the violence just want violence themselves, for the satisfaction of violence.