Theory and Practice of Passive resistance
Theory and Practice of PR:
-“It is a force that may be used by individuals as well as by communities. It may be used as well in political as in domestic Affairs.” -Civil Rights movement is political and Domestic Affair (examples)
-How do African Americans use Truth Force?
The movement's effective provocation of shocking clashes between southern police and nonviolent demonstrators heightened the national salience of the civil rightsultimately compelled a reluctant federal government to take decisive action on behalf of African-Americancivil rights
-It is impossible for those who consider… -Struggles During Civil Rights Movement -Police Brutality
On March 7, 1964, as over 500 civil rights marchers departed the city across the Edmund Pettus Bridge toward the state capital to demonstrate for voting rights,state troopers and Clark'svolunteer posse set upon them using tear gas and wielding batons. At the end of the melee, dozens were injured and the nation had once again witnessed the raw brutalityof Jim Crow This event, more than any other, pushed forward the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Only eight days later, in a joint session of Congress, President Johnson condemned the violence in Selma and declared his resolute support for voting rightslegislation.
-Force is to violence….injustice -Injustice and Violence in movement.
Satyagraha: “We cannot remedy evil by harbouring ill-will against the evil doer” -Martin Luther King Jr. Speech
Religion of Nonviolence: Difference btw non violence and cowards violence -Relate Back To book
Law of Suffereing
“we must not, for fear or…. Must combat the wrong by ceasing to assist the wrong doer directly or indirectly. -Montgom Bus Boycott howd it screw over the white government -“Without such suffering it is not possible to attain Freedom”
“I do believe that where there is only a choice btw cowardice I would advise violence” -Assault and expected actions of son -Was any violence
-“It is a force that may be used by individuals as well as by communities. It may be used as well in political as in domestic Affairs.” -Civil Rights movement is political and Domestic Affair (examples)
-How do African Americans use Truth Force?
The movement's effective provocation of shocking clashes between southern police and nonviolent demonstrators heightened the national salience of the civil rightsultimately compelled a reluctant federal government to take decisive action on behalf of African-Americancivil rights
-It is impossible for those who consider… -Struggles During Civil Rights Movement -Police Brutality
On March 7, 1964, as over 500 civil rights marchers departed the city across the Edmund Pettus Bridge toward the state capital to demonstrate for voting rights,state troopers and Clark'svolunteer posse set upon them using tear gas and wielding batons. At the end of the melee, dozens were injured and the nation had once again witnessed the raw brutalityof Jim Crow This event, more than any other, pushed forward the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Only eight days later, in a joint session of Congress, President Johnson condemned the violence in Selma and declared his resolute support for voting rightslegislation.
-Force is to violence….injustice -Injustice and Violence in movement.
Satyagraha: “We cannot remedy evil by harbouring ill-will against the evil doer” -Martin Luther King Jr. Speech
Religion of Nonviolence: Difference btw non violence and cowards violence -Relate Back To book
Law of Suffereing
“we must not, for fear or…. Must combat the wrong by ceasing to assist the wrong doer directly or indirectly. -Montgom Bus Boycott howd it screw over the white government -“Without such suffering it is not possible to attain Freedom”
“I do believe that where there is only a choice btw cowardice I would advise violence” -Assault and expected actions of son -Was any violence