Charles E. Cobb Jr.
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“And out in the rural, when Mrs. Laura McGhee--who if she thought it necessary, sat on the porch with her Winchester rifle--permitted movement workers to use her farm outside Greenwood for a rally, the sheriff came to warn her against holding it. She told him that *he* was on *her* property, that *he* was trespassing and hadn't ever offered any protection from the terrorists who kept threatening to shoot up her farms, and that he therefore had nothing to offer her now and had better leave, get off her land. And the sheriff left.”
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
“Genuine political resistance, to be effective, has to be more creative than simply using lethal weapons.”
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“Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit—never to stand up for themselves.”
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