anarchyongallifrey:

queeranarchism:

If you live in a place where polite ‘non-violent’ demonstrations are not beaten  and shot up by fascists, you need to realize that the only reason for that is that the fascists don’t feel strong enough to do it. They would if they could.

Polite ‘non-violent’ demonstrations

always take place inside the safety created by confrontational ‘violent’ antifascist defense and that’s just a fact.

“[I]f your present racist agitation against our people there in Alabama causes physical harm to Reverend King or any other black Americans who are only attempting to enjoy their rights as free human beings, that you and your Ku Klux Klan friends will be met with maximum physical retaliation

from those of us who are not hand-cuffed by the disarming philosophy of nonviolence, and who believe in asserting our right of self-defense — by any means necessary.

”
–Malcolm X in a telegram to American Nazi Party founder Georgge Lincoln Rockwell, protecting Martin Luther King and his non-violent movement by threatening violence towards the fascists who might harm him.