How did you hold to nonviolence when a pounding wall of vicious hate was pushing through you like waves of fire during the protests and sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement? How is it possible to be cracked on the head with a nightstick, left bleeding and unconscious on the trampled grass, and not raise your hand one time in self-defense? How could you bear the clear hypocrisy of being arrested on trumped-up charges and taken to jail for disturbing the peace when you were the one who was attacked and abused? How could you survive the unanswered threats, the bombings, and murders of a lineage
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