I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their prob…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world? After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.
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