Great civilizations aren't ruled by guns :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Jesse Jackson
We undervalue the power of nonviolence. In fact, the whole measure of civilization, to some essential degree, is premised on civil order.
Ironically, the positive changes that have transformed the world have largely come from nonviolence. World War I led only to the next global war. World War II led to the armed camps of the Cold War.
But the suffragists did not need guns to win women's right to vote. Dr. King did not need guns to bring down the Cotton Curtain. Gandhi did not need guns to free India. Lech Walesa did not need guns to lift up Solidarity in Poland. Vaclav Havel did not need guns for Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution. Chile did not need guns to bring Pinochet to justice.
When the Berlin Wall came down, the protesters did not wave their AK-47s; they sang "We Shall Overcome."
...Whatever a divided Supreme Court rules, at the end of the day, we will decide. It is time to think again about guns and about nonviolence.
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