Black and white still of Stokely Carmichael, he says: In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
And they don't.
Black and white still of Stokely Carmichael, he says: In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
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Dadifer@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
The Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ ”
MLK
I would argue that for these people, nonviolence is a necessary preamble or alternative, just as MLK was a foil to the Black Panthers.