Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice | Atlanta Daily World
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Civil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File by Anthony Siracusa, St. John Fisher University Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95, was a Methodist minister and a powerful advocate of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement. … Continued

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Civil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File by Anthony Siracusa, St. John Fisher University Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95, was a Methodist minister and a powerful advocate of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement. … Continued

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  • @DeceptichumEnglish
    1•11 days ago

    Non-violence only ever works because there are others who are not non-violent.

    Yet the state is vested in pushing the narrative of the non-violent protestor as the agent of change.