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From Marx to Malcolm and Martin: I once viewed notions of nonviolence and "the beloved community" as sentimental and naive. Now I believe they are the source of revolutionary power.(Karl Marx, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr.)

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From: The Other Side
Date: 20030101
Author:Boggs, Grace Lee

IN THE 1960S I DIDN'T PAY MUCH attention to Martin Luther King, Jr. My own social-change activities unfolded in the inner city of Detroit. So I identified more with Malcolm than with Martin. Like most Black Power activists, I tended to view King's notions of nonviolence and "the beloved community" as somewhat naive and sentimental.

Nor was I involved in the fifteen-year campaign that was launched in 1968 by Detroit's own Congressman John Conyers to declare King's birthday a national holiday. While many progressives rallied to the cause, I held back, concerned that it would ...

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From Marx to Malcolm and Martin: I once viewed notions of nonviolence and "the beloved community" as sentimental and naive. Now I believe they are the source of revolutionary power.(Karl Marx, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr.)

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