Jezebel , Where Do We Go from

Jezebel

, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1 The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot Jezebel and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of Martin Luther King, Jr. , The Trumpet of Conscience, 1 violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1 Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1 It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt Martin Luther King, Jr. , Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1 inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. Martin Luther King, Jr. , speech, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1 When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, Jezebel us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison. Martin Luther King, Jr. , The Trumpet of Conscience, 1 It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think thats pretty Martin Luther King, Jr. , Wall Street Journal, November 13, 1 Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of chain reaction of evil-hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of Martin Luther King, Jr. , Strength To Love, 1 Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Strength to Love, 1 Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a mans sense of values and his objectivity.