TFred
Regular Member
No doubt your Facebook News Feed is full of your friends' favorite MLK quotes today.
Let's take a moment to recall one of his lesser-known quotes, from a speech titled Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom, given on May 4, 1966:
Obviously Dr. King was fighting the evils of that day on a different plain than mere physical protection, and that was the point of this particular speech. But as a part of this fight, he assumed it was normal, beyond question, that one would protect their own homes and by implication, families and loved ones, from that violence.
Nobody disputes that Dr. King was a man of peace. I am reassured to know that he was also a man who believed in defending the home.
TFred
Let's take a moment to recall one of his lesser-known quotes, from a speech titled Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom, given on May 4, 1966:
There are many people who very honestly raise the question of self-defense. This must be placed in perspective. It goes without saying that people will protect their homes. This is a right guaranteed by the Constitution and respected even in the worst areas of the South. But the mere protection of one's home and person against assault by lawless night riders does not provide any positive approach to the fears and conditions which produce violence.
Obviously Dr. King was fighting the evils of that day on a different plain than mere physical protection, and that was the point of this particular speech. But as a part of this fight, he assumed it was normal, beyond question, that one would protect their own homes and by implication, families and loved ones, from that violence.
Nobody disputes that Dr. King was a man of peace. I am reassured to know that he was also a man who believed in defending the home.
TFred