Third, evil itself, not the people committing evil acts, should be opposed. Fourth, those committed to nonviolence must be willing to suffer without retaliation as suffering itself can be redemptive. During the years after the bus boycott, King grew increasingly committed to nonviolence. As long as the hope was fulfilled there was little questioning of nonviolence.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Document Research Requests. The Institute cannot give permission to use or reproduce any of the writings, statements, or images of Martin Luther King, Jr. Skip to content Skip to navigation. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. Search form Search. If one side is violent, and people encourage the other side to fight back without violence, that will cause people from that side to die.
What we need is better decision making and to consider the method to do something that would cause the least suffering in every situation. I grew up with violence, sadly. I went to school and got violence. So I love violence. So all you haters can believe what you want to believe.
Email Address. May 20, at pm. April 19, at pm. September 29, at am. November 24, at pm. January 9, at pm. January 8, at pm. March 12, at pm. May 30, at pm. Security forces are important because they ultimately are the agents of repression, and their actions largely decide how violent the confrontation with — and reaction to — the nonviolent campaign is going to be in the end. But there are other security elites, economic and business elites, state media. The third thing is that the campaigns need to be able to have more than just protests; there needs to be a lot of variation in the methods they use.
In , Erica Chenoweth believed in the strategic logic of armed resistance. Then she was challenged to prove it. Staying inside for an extended period equates to a general strike.
Even limited strikes are very effective. There were limited and general strikes in Tunisia and Egypt during their uprisings and they were critical. WCFIA: A general strike seems like a personally costly way to protest, especially if you just stop working or stop buying things. Why are they effective? One good example of that comes from South Africa. The anti-apartheid movement organized a total boycott of white businesses, which meant that black community members were still going to work and getting a paycheck from white businesses but were not buying their products.
Several months of that and the white business elites were in total crisis. Anand Mahindra recalls when a room at Taj cost Rs 6.
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