ance, the practical considerations should forbid violence. One not only loses sight of the principles which gave rise to the movement, one also loses sight of the goals of the movement. The advocates of violence in the civil rights movement took up their radical position in part because they believed the non-violent approach of King was not achieving the desired ends quickly enough. However, in retrospect, it is clear that King's non-violent protests accomplished far more than did the violent movement led by Carmichael, Brown and others. We also must note that King has had a national holiday established in his memory, while Brown and Carmichael and their ilk are mere asterisks at most in the history of those years. More importantly, King recognized that violence would simply not succeed. The establishment had by far the superior power and would triumph in any violent struggle against militants, who would always be a minority of any movem
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