Dr. Johnathan Flowers (shengokai@zirk.us)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 14:50:25 JST

Pragmatically, it is nigh impossible to engage in any moral transformation when you're constantly under the threat of violence, when you can be killed with impunity. You need to restrain the capacity to do violence before you can enact cultural change to end the causes of violence.

Now, King wasn't alone in this: Paulo Freire had a similar perspective articulated through the "violence" of the oppressed against the oppressor.