As a black man, without violence my ancestors would still be slaves, so I would take violence against my white masters every day even if I die trying.

History is also littered with the even-worse consequences of not trying, such as our western cowardice and complicity resulting in the Gaza genocide.

the assumption that political violence must mean dead or maimed people says something about the people saying.

back in 2017, the mexican threw a couple bricks and broke a couple windows like americans used to do during the civil rights era and they ended up getting president Shienbaum because of it -- meanwhile our aversion gave us trump.

Yes, ideally only the morally correct and righteous causes would justify the use of violence, but unfortunately it's also the misguided, misunderstood, or misrepresented causes that also justify violence. People want to use quotes like this to justify THEIR desire for violence, but sometimes their causes are just bad.

So for example slaves should just endure slavery as that's true strength? Lest they be as bad as the slavers...?

This is some anime logic bs that has no based in reality or historical analysis 🤣

This is completely wrong, idealistic, and ignores all of history, which shows that violence is nearly always required to overcome an oppressor.

The "victories of pacifism" are almost always used as propaganda to maintain the status quo.

• What about Pacifism / pacifist socialism? Is violence necessary to acheive socialism? What about Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi? audiobook
• Why not just vote leftists into office: what's wrong with democratic socialism?
• Is a bloodless revolution possible?
• "Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation." - Arundhati Roy.
• What is imperialism?
• The CIA, Gene sharp, and it's pacifist color revolution regime change tactics.
• Regime Change Agent: Gene Sharp's liberal non-violence.
• Was the civil rights struggle in the US really nonviolent? Malcolm X - message to the grassroots.
• FBI cointel directives on "nonviolent" groups.
• Is a state really necessary to transition into communism?
• Engels - on authority.
• An Overview of Leninism, audiobook. Lenin - State and Revolution , audiobook
• Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution, audiobook

This is straight white person who converted to Buddhism talk.

Sit down and tell that to the parents of a five year old kid who got abducted and thrown in a cage in Texas.