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

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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

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