John Lennon on non-violent protest:

[applegrove]

Remember these would this Saturday for No Kings...

— GrouchyMarkx (@grouchymarkx.bsky.social) 2025-10-15T18:20:31.339Z

[Celerity]

1. Counterpoint:

'And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.'

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[NightWatcher]

2. And this from Gandhi...

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.



and from the Bible or the Byrds

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

[Stacey Grove]

3. Or Jimi Hendrix

"Ima pick my axe and fight like a farmer . . ."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Welcome to DU

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Haul water. Chop wood. Welcome to DU! 👋

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