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Started by: TerryW (inactive)

"Always be sure that you struggle with Christian methods and Christian weapons. Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

In your struggle for justice, let your oppressor know that you are not attempting to defeat or humiliate him, or even to pay him back for injustices that he has heaped upon you. Let him know that you are merely seeking justice for him as well as yourself. Let him know that the festering sore of segregation debilitates the white man as well as the Negro. With this attitude you will be able to keep your struggle on high Christian standards."

Martin Luther King.

From a sermon preached in Montgomery, Alabama, November 6, 1956.

It would seem the black people now have forgotten their own history and the remarkable speeches this good man gave. So I can only assume from recent events they want nothing more than violence and to destroy everything and anything in their path, deface memorials to men who but for them none of our lives would matter.

Replied: 15th Jun 2020 at 18:29

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