Malcom X’s point is that, similar to Burroughs, the government will only take you seriously when there is the threat of violence. As long as there is no violent threat, the government is just fine with non-violent demonstrations, because it acts as a valve which releases pressure in a way that is innocuous while [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Violence VS Non-Violence’
May 4, 2008
King on Non-Violence and His Tactics
Compare King’s line from the “Birmingham Jail Letter” that says privileged people do not voluntarily give up their privileges (which, I think, one can substitute here with the word power), which is repeated by King in the interview here, with Burroughs’ similar suggestion below. What does it mean that two people can make almost [...]
May 4, 2008
More Views on Violence VS Non-Violence
“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to cops just isn’t going to work.
This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.”
~ William S. Burroughs
May 4, 2008
Key Quotes for the Great-Debate-of-2008!
“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 allow the country that you live in [...]
May 4, 2008
Key Quotes for the Great-Debate-of-2008!
“There’s no way to be committed to non-violence in one of the most violent societies that history has ever created. I’m not committed to non-violence in any way.“
~Bernardine Dohrn
