Being an evil person to get rid of evil just makes another evil person, you can believe you are good until you die but can you believe the person who comes after you will be?
MLK jr and Gandhi bettered life for their people without violence
No oppressed person ever got their rights by appealing to the morality of their oppressor.
Both these movements would have failed if there wasn’t a violent component demonstrating the alternative if they didn’t choose the more peaceful route.
It’s important to note that King didn’t unilaterally condemn violence, he acknowledged that they were a response to a greater, ongoing injustice, and that the white moderates who pretended to agree with their aims, but opposed them because of their methods were as much if not a greater barrier to civil rights than the klanman.
Maybe you should hang around left wingers more
Being an evil person to get rid of evil just makes another evil person, you can believe you are good until you die but can you believe the person who comes after you will be?
MLK jr and Gandhi bettered life for their people without violence
No oppressed person ever got their rights by appealing to the morality of their oppressor.
Both these movements would have failed if there wasn’t a violent component demonstrating the alternative if they didn’t choose the more peaceful route.
If you want more context on how the two method supported each other in the civil rights movement, here’s a good book.
It’s important to note that King didn’t unilaterally condemn violence, he acknowledged that they were a response to a greater, ongoing injustice, and that the white moderates who pretended to agree with their aims, but opposed them because of their methods were as much if not a greater barrier to civil rights than the klanman.