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[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/05/archives/nonviolence-making-quiet-gains-in-us-despite-disorders-nonviolence.html by John Herbers 5/4/1970 The New York Times] | [https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/05/archives/nonviolence-making-quiet-gains-in-us-despite-disorders-nonviolence.html by John Herbers 5/4/1970 The New York Times] | ||
HAVERFORD, Pa., April 3— Two years after the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., nonviolence as a tech nique for social change, al though widely rejected, is making quiet gains across the nation. | HAVERFORD, Pa., April 3— Two years after the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., nonviolence as a tech nique for social change, al though widely rejected, is making quiet gains across the nation. | ||
=====Why Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence matters now more than ever===== | |||
[https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/27/us/king-center-mlk-nonviolence-strategy by Eliott C. McLaughlin 27/2/22 CNN] | |||
The discipline made sense in the 1950s and 1960s when peaceful protesters were met by “Bull” Connor or Sheriff Jim Clark, who unleashed the full venom of law enforcement. Protesters’ nonviolent response to dogs, billy clubs and water cannons painted a necessary contrast for the North and the world: Here are the oppressors; there are the oppressed. | |||
