Martin Luther King on violence:

[Nye Bevan]

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater,
but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate.
So it goes.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Soembody should send these words to the US govt

which loves to drop bombs on the Middle East.

Also, send these words to the cops who kill unarmed black people.

[romanic]

2. Words well spoken.

I wish MLK were still alive.

[HipChick]

3. By Any Means Necessary..

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[cali]

4. The theory of apparent paradox

Wherein two seemingly irreconcilable truths exist in the same space/time frame

[Scootaloo]

5. Nye Bevan on the killing of Freddie Gray:

And who could forget this insightful post:



















And of course, we all remember his deep concern for the family left behind by hte killing of this man:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Crickets I see. BTW:

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Nye Bevan on the killing of Freddie Gray:
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[FlatBaroque]

6. A sage and a prophet, MLK

these words on violence are pearls of wisdom.

[Skittles]

7. using violence to protest violence

is like using the death penalty to protest murder

[gollygee]

9. Also from MLK

"I contend that the cry of 'black power' is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro. I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard."

[Mira]

10. Yes

that is what makes both the words of a MLK and a Malcolm X necessities for human survival, equity and power.

[Solly Mack]

11. Thank you.