No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

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Use this Toolkit from SURJ for calling in white folks who are using harmful narratives around protest “violence:” https://tinyurl.com/SURJTools.

For King, justice — understood as respect for human rights — was a precondition for true peace; peace that preserved injustice was illusory. His 1963 letter from Birmingham Jail expressly called for a “transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality.” The ideology of white supremacy against which we are fighting is deeply entrenched and pervasive, and any expectation to dismantle it requires that we shift from wishes for peaceful protest to dismantling that which warrants protest in the first place. It requires that we shift from blaming the reasonable reactions of the oppressed to targeting the oppressors and oppressive systems. It requires that we listen and meet the demands of the victims, and stop defending the assailants. The inheritors of freedom in South Africa must break free from that inheritance by establishing a new political culture, one that avoids the sentimentality of forgiveness and resists the impulse to elevate stories about racial indignity over stories about economic indignity.

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Stevenson, Brenda. The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). During the January 1972 World Day of Peace celebrations, Pope Paul VI said, "If you want peace, work for justice." [13] [14] Variants [ edit ] ...No racist police [ edit ] Protester with a sign reading "Know Justice Know Peace"

enacting laws that promote justice and accountability, including the For the People Act (which restores key protections of the Voting Rights Act), the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act;Anatomy of a Fraud: Kenneth Chesebro’s Misrepresentation of My Scholarship in His Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Presidential Election In his book, Küng turned to two virtues in particular that deserve further scrutiny today: courage and constancy. I strongly agree that these virtues are required for global peacebuilding, complemented, among others, by responsiveness to the other, resistance to coercive power, and temperance as a virtue of non-violence. Virtues must be learned, especially in a Church that teaches obedience rather than courage and resistance to injustices. Popik, Barry (26 May 2005). " "No justice, no peace!" ". www.barrypopik.com . Retrieved 5 June 2020.