So sad that we forget the importance MLK Jr.'s teachings..

[G_j]

SIX PRINCIPLES OF NONVIOLENCE

PRINCIPLE ONE: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
It is active nonviolent resistance to evil.
It is aggressive spiritually, mentally and emotionally.

PRINCIPLE TWO: Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
The end result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation.
The purpose of nonviolence is the creation of the Beloved Community.

PRINCIPLE THREE: Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice not people.
Nonviolence recognizes that evildoers are also victims and are not evil people.
The nonviolent resister seeks to defeat evil not people.

PRINCIPLE FOUR: Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform.
Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation.
Unearned suffering is redemptive and has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities.

PRINCIPLE FIVE: Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
Nonviolence resists violence of the spirit as well as the body.
Nonviolent love is spontaneous, unmotivated, unselfish and creative.

PRINCIPLE SIX: Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win.
Nonviolence believes that God is a God of justice.

thekingcenter.org

[jonno99]

1. K&R. Non-violence should ALWAYS be the go-to option - until it is no longer an option. nt

[Peacetrain]

2. We were thinking along the same lines today..

[DinahMoeHum]

3. "This Non-Violent Stuff'll Get You Killed"

From the Howard Zinn Education Project - Teaching a People's History

Guns and the Southern Freedom Struggle: What’s Missing When We Teach About Nonviolence

http://zinnedproject.org/2014/09/guns-and-the-southern-freedom-struggle/

(snip)
Asserting their right to defend themselves when attacked was a tradition that has safeguarded and sustained generations of black people in the United States. Yet this tradition is almost completely absent from the conventional narrative of the Southern civil rights struggle. Organized self-defense in black communities goes back to the aftermath of the Civil War. Guns were an integral part of Southern life. Although many rural blacks respected protesters’ use of nonviolence, they also mistrusted it. Hartman Turnbow, a black Mississippi farmer and community leader, was a case in point. With tragic foresight, Turnbow bluntly warned Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, “This nonviolent stuff ain’t no good. It’ll get ya killed.”

Rev. King knew the risks. In fact, after the Jan. 30, 1956, bombing of his home in Montgomery, he applied at the sheriff’s office for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. He was denied the permit, but this did not stop him from having firearms in his house. Indeed, there were few black leaders who did not seek and receive armed protection from within the black community. They needed it because both local law enforcement and the federal government refused to provide it.
(snip)

(boldface emphasis is mine - DMH)

Much more at the links:
http://zinnedproject.org/2014/09/guns-and-the-southern-freedom-struggle/

https://www.amazon.com/This-Nonviolent-Stuffll-Get-Killed/dp/0465033105/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1467990231&sr=1-1&keywords=this+nonviolence+stuff+will+get+you+killed

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Sorry, but simply quoting Gandhi and MLK is not enough anymore.

[G_j]

4. thus, your opinion

My opinion is that MLK was vastly wiser than yourself.

& I've lost track of the times I've heard people try to discredit his life's work and philosophy because he had armed bodyguards.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. same thing for you.

sorry if you can't handle reality.