Especially in the aftermath of Ferguson, there was a lot of “What would Dr. King have—how would Dr. King feel about you rabble-rousers in the street?” specifically to like the young people who were out in the street after Ferguson. And I just find that so completely odious and offensive, because a lot of times when people call for peace, what they’re really just calling for is order. What they’re really calling for is just for people to go back to business as usual, which is actually violence. People think that violence is only when something is on fire, only when a gun is being fired. But, Gandhi himself said poverty is the worst form of violence. Poverty is violence. Our kids being shuffled from schools into prison is violence. Kids being hungry is violence. These are all—we live with violence every single day. The violence doesn’t begin just when the CVS is burned.
– Bree Newsome, arrested June 27 after she scaled the 30-foot flagpole at the South Carolina state Capitol and removed the Confederate flag. She faces three years in prison.
— source democracynow.org