Forum Post: Message from Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 7, 2011, 6:35 p.m. EST by Flsupport
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We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, "God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you."
Walk, and chant the slogans, but understand the way the civil rights movement was won, not wholly by protest but by economic action as well, as far as possible.
Yeah, but that's a lot less fun than marching around and chanting slogans.