An essential ingredient of nonviolent political philosophy is the “alignment of means and end”; the idea that the end is inherent in the means, therefore the struggle is to achieve within ourselves the conditions of peace & ethics we wish to see prevail in the world. #Nonviolence
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Then why do you think we, as a country have never changed anything significant without violence and bloodshed? From the DEATH and following riots of MLK to the HAYMARKET RIOTS. Everything we have ever needed had to be ripped from the elites by force
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MLK would disagree with you. His entire life was testament to the power of non-violence. Violence was perpetated against him, to be sure, but the refusal of the civil rights movement to retaliate with violence was why it ultimately succeeded and prevailed.
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Disagrees or not, his life and all his Marches were not able to achieve what his death and the riots that followed did. It's a sad historical fact. He didn't get to fully see the change while he was alive.
history.com/topics/black-his…
He said riots were the language of the unheard
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He did say riots are the language of the unheard, but the last thing he ever did was to call for them. It wasn’t the riots after his death but the nonviolent power of his life that caused his success. He was alive for the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act in ‘64 and ‘65.
May 10, 2022 · 10:03 AM UTC
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