How the Founding Fathers encourage political violence
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How the Founding Fathers encourage political violence
NONVIOLENCE is an orphan among democratic ideas. It has nearly vanished from public discourse even though the most basic element of free government—the vote—has no other meaning. Every ballot is a piece of nonviolence, signifying hard-won consent to raise politics above firepower and bloody conquest.
Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
in a letter to James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
in a letter to James Madison