But the white reporters kept wanting me linked with that word “violence.” I doubt if I had one interview without having to deal with that accusation. “I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem—just to avoid violence. I don’t go for non-violence if it also means a delayed solution. To me a delayed solution is a non-solution. Or I’ll say it another way. If it must take violence to get the black man his human rights in this country, I’m for violence exactly as you know the Irish, the Poles, or Jews would be if they were
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Similar to arguments regarding the civil war being a tragedy vs necessary
