Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.
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Stokely Carmichael was a 20th-century American trinbagonian-american activist. Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian-American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Born in the Crown Colony of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, he grew up in the United States from age 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science. Read more on Wikipedia →