Atlanta Metropolitan State College - Genesis Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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professes to be ouls of men and is . the slums that nomic conditions nd the social con- em is a spiritually in need of new POLITICS One of the chief weapons of the Ne- gro is the ballot. None of these other things means much unless we also get the power of the ballot. STRUGGLE We know from painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demand- ed by the oppressed. When I say love those who oppose you I am not speaking of love in a sen- The Negro cannot win... if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety. oppressors in an affectionate sense. mean understanding good will. timental or affectionate sense. It would be nonsense to urge men to love their When I refer to love at this point I

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| NONVIOLENCE Violence as a way of achieving raci justice is both impractical and immor al. It is impractical because it is a de ' scending spiral ending in destructio | for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the oppo- nent rather than win his understand- ing; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes ) brotherhood impossible. ...It creates pel PTL MY Melati ps ee te ts rest naepemroes e, bitterness in the survivors and brutal- fill dadut Ub fs eek, (Kent le Iago, ——— oe per) Se one ha po ity in the destroyers. A k i Se a hy (CO NGIRIE Ss sang) ich He trations Deelarat tort sigan wes SLOfes of Dare or, is ge Nonviolence demands that the ; | means we use must be as pure as the ‘ends we seek. I have tried to make 'clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral ‘means to preserve immoral ends. : | As muchas! deplore violence, there is one evil that is worse than violence, and that’s cowardice. | id oe ‘ rn Paty | 1 = os by ' 5 | get De Oe % é 1 | oe SPs eh i : | vs be ite ,.- ) ae oe ¢ | | “aewindad. ae 1 ey y ) 3 [hu Paper Dye Me pA ey D 4 . be 4 Ls A x ; } he : 7 Y . ling teed F ’ i Ma oa a Z | SE LLWEL Ja A ee | oe, A S 2 ae ys JS ws 4 BLACK PROGRESS yt We cannot be satistied as long as the A, GO Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a AL Ve YW Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. INTEGRATION | When I speak of integration, I don't mean a romantic mixing of colors, I mean a real sharing of power and re- sponsibility. -y? | | ) A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings .ior the na- | tion of which Negroes are part. They | have been given pieces — but unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is in- divisible—we have it all, or we are not free. 157