Naomi Jaffe says the following in the movie:
“We felt that doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is itself a form of violence.
That’s really the part that I think is the hardest for people to understand. If you sit in your house, live your white life and go to your white job, and [...]
Bernardine Dohrn says in the movie, “There’s no way to be committed to non-violence in one of the most violent societies that history has ever created.”
Think back to what Thoreau said about taxes. The gist of it was that you’re implicated in a system–complicit some would say–that is violent. Similarly, the Weathermen consistently claim that [...]
Consider MLK’s quote to the Weathermen’s rationale for the “Days of Rage” battle in Chicago:
“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win 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 [...]
