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gollygee

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5. More again

Reply to Kurska (Original post)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 12:22 PM

Apr 2015

"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government"

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Quote submitted for your consideration and without comment [View all] Kurska Apr 2015 OP

Another quote, also from MLK gollygee Apr 2015 #1

Genuine question, do you think riots advance civil rights? Kurska Apr 2015 #6

No idea gollygee Apr 2015 #8

So you can't say whether you think they are productive or not for civil rights. Kurska Apr 2015 #9

I said that I'm not a sociologist or a historian gollygee Apr 2015 #10