"I've told the kids in the ghettos..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.
More by Martin Luther King Jr
“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.”
“There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.”
“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
More on Violence
“The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.”
“We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.”
“Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.”
More on Hypocrisy
“In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.”
“Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.”
“Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.”