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Perhaps it depends on who initiates the violence. A long time ago I watched a peaceful protest by blacks in Birmingham turn ugly as the police used dogs and fire hoses to break it up. The police initiated the violence, that day was a huge turning point in the march for civil rights. It proved in this old Georgia boys mind that segregation were wrong. they were the aggressors. It was time to change and for change. Without Birmingham who knows how the 1964 civil rights bill would have fared?
I agree and it bears out what I'm saying. Confronting non violence with violence did not benefit the violent. One of the things I respect most about MLK was his insistence on non violence and that's what precipitated the change.