alt Hacker Newsinteresting to ponder is whether violence alone would have had a similar positive outcome?
I think I can hold in my head two things: prefer changing minds; realize that major changes are often made real by violence.
However, I would hesitate to encourage violence. I hope you also.
The civil rights movement was not a single‑track nonviolent morality thing, and the way it’s taught does often flatten it into something safe, palatable and politically convenient