“I had intellectualized violence quite a bit,” MacKaye continues. “I had a philosophy of violence, which was that I bruise the ego. That was my theory. I fought a lot, but I never maimed people. I was not a cruel fighter. My concept was that I would never back down from a fight. I would just come at people. The idea was to break their will—I didn’t want to hurt nobody, I really didn’t want to hurt nobody. All I really wanted to do was tell them not to hurt me and not let them have the sense that they were going to dominate us.”
