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To: Nifster

I hate to remind people, but the organizers welcomed the violence, even as they preached non-violence.


40 posted on 03/08/2015 6:40:35 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP
I hate to remind people, but the organizers welcomed the violence, even as they preached non-violence.

MLK's Southern Christian Leadership Conference came to a screeching halt in Albany Ga after the local sheriff read Gandhi etc... and realized being arrested was part of the tactic. MLK's cause was just - but it is as you say...

46 posted on 03/09/2015 8:39:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Amnesty's the spirit of slave ships - not Selma. Cheap labor and political power... Greenfield)
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To: TBP

And if you remember that violence shocked a nation precisely because it was so outrageous. People were being treated as less than people because southern democrats (just like modern liberals) did not value those lives


49 posted on 03/09/2015 6:51:36 PM PDT by Nifster
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